Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
The academic motto of “publish or perish” can create an isolationist graduate school environment. It can be easy to convince ourselves that our impact is… Read More »Pharmacology Student Initiative: Building a Better Graduate Community
Approximately 50 percent of patients with heart failure die within five years of diagnosis due to lack of an effective cure. Scientists are working to… Read More »A Promising Therapeutic Target for Heart Failure
Marc Edwards, Ph.D., has a vision for an innovative kind of lecture series at Johns Hopkins. The postdoctoral research fellow is interested in featuring prominent… Read More »Levi Watkins Lecture Series to Feature Prominent Minorities in Science
“The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor,” said Rudolf Virchow, a German physician-anthropologist, in 1848. It was this framework for public health that… Read More »Advocacy Through Occupational Therapy
Recently on Facebook, I saw a post from my friend about her sadness in reaction to two of her friends committing suicide. The situation was… Read More »Suicide: A Disturbing but Preventable Problem
Go to any laboratory, talk to any scientist, ask any graduate student about a technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and just about everyone will… Read More »The CRISPR Craze: 3 Ways Genome Editing Is Changing Gene Therapy
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents over the last 30… Read More »Locally Combating the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
This past week, the first ever “JHU Forum on Race in America” took place with speaker Ta-Nehisi Coates at the forefront. Ta-Nehisi, a prominent writer… Read More »Speaker Ta-Nehisi Coates Sheds Light on the Issue of Racism at the Inaugural JHU Forum on Race in America
Here on campus, Project Bridge is a student organization that aims to bridge the gap between biomedical science and the general public. On April 16th,… Read More »A Project Bridge Event on Multiple Sclerosis and the Role of Patient Empowerment
When attempting to elucidate the function of biological macromolecules, visual representations can be extremely useful tools. Often, these tools can help pinpoint the structural origin… Read More »Snapshot of a DNA Photocopier in ‘Hibernate’ Mode Reveals Potential Origin for Dwarfism