Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Shirley Tilghman, professor of molecular biology and former Princeton University president, delivered the 16th annual Daniel Nathans Lecture in Molecular Genetics about a dilemma unfolding… Read More »The Malthusian Dilemma: Biomedical Research in the Post-NIH Budget Doubling Era
Every 19 minutes, someone dies from an opioid overdose in the United States. Yet the number of opioids prescribed annually is so high that each… Read More »Curbing the Tide of the Opioid Epidemic
You may expect that defining something as living or dead would be relatively straightforward, yet nearly every scientist you ask for a definition of what… Read More »Scientifically Defining Life
Guys, it’s finally happening. I am going to graduate with my Ph.D. This is 99 percent excellent news, and I am 99 percent thrilled. But… Read More »The Best Bites in Baltimore
One in 292.2 million — those were the odds of winning the recent $1.5 billion Powerball, the largest lottery jackpot ever. As it happens, a… Read More »The Life Lottery
Doctors rarely have the chance to provide a variety of free and comprehensive services to patients under one roof, but the seventh annual B’more Healthy… Read More »Hopkins Outreach at the B’More Healthy Expo
The majority of postdoctoral appointments are at educational institutions. This includes my postdoctoral fellow position at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Approximately 75 percent… Read More »From Academia to Industry: Lessons from a Johns Hopkins Graduate
Graduate school can be a lonely time. As your research becomes increasingly specialized, it is harder to find people who can relate. During your first… Read More »Finding Community in Graduate School
It was a simple assignment. Fill out an advanced directive or Maryland Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST) form and the Five Wishes form, and… Read More »How I Want to Die: Teaching Ethics and Death in Medical School
Multiple sclerosis afflicts millions but defies most clinical treatments. For reasons we do not clearly understand, the immune system of an individual with MS attacks… Read More »Blocking Signals Between Brain Cells May Boost Brain Repair in MS