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An Evening with Nobel Laureate Gregg Semenza

December 10, 2019

This November, Nobel laureate Gregg Semenza gave an inspiring keynote presentation highlighting how researching basic scientific principles can improve our understanding of human disease.

Kyla Britson ⋅ Events and Happenings basic science, Gregg Semenza, nobel prize, Research ⋅

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Drifting Through the Dark

March 6, 2019

I have never wanted to be an astronaut. The idea of hurtling upward in a rocket ship, crashing through the Earth’s atmosphere, and launching into the weightless, densely black sky with the knowledge that you might never return makes me feel a certain loneliness. Yet when friends and family ask what it’s like to do […]

Erika Dunn-Weiss ⋅ A Day in the Life basic science, Neuroscience ⋅

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Partnering Toward Discovery: A Focus on Inclusion Body Myositis

February 15, 2019

Many people are not familiar with a rare disease called inclusion body myositis (IBM). Most have never heard of it. On Jan. 22, 2019, Harry Benjamin Larman and students Janelle Montagne, Sahana Jayaraman and Kyla Britson presented their clinical and basic science research on IBM at the first event in this year’s Partnering Toward Discovery […]

Yazmin Rovira Gonzalez ⋅ Perspectives in Research basic science, graduate students, medical students, partnering towards discovery ⋅

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Understanding NIH’s New Definition of a Clinical Trial

January 9, 2018

The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) recent change to the definition of a clinical trial will go into effect later this month. The change, done in an effort to restructure and clarify what clinical trials are, will affect NIH grant submission deadlines on or after Jan. 25, 2018. Redefining Clinical Trails The NIH now defines […]

Brittany Avin ⋅ Perspectives in Research basic science, behavioral research, NIH ⋅

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The Opportunity in Failure

December 6, 2017

Each year, the Johns Hopkins graduate programs organize a white coat ceremony for graduate students to recognize the completion of their graduate board oral examinations (GBOs). For graduate students this test is the gatekeeper to our training; it transitions us from students to Ph.D. candidates and marks the commencement of our thesis work. The students […]

Joelle Dorskind ⋅ A Day in the Life basic science, planning ⋅

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Explorers Behind the Bench

September 15, 2017

Have you ever had one of those days when everything and anything goes wrong? Your car won’t start; your roommate used the last of the milk; there is no hot water in your building and, of course, it is pouring outside. Well, in the life of a graduate student, those types of days can start […]

Joelle Dorskind ⋅ A Day in the Life basic science ⋅

Visualizing the Salivary Gland of a Mosquito

January 27, 2016

Buzzing. Biting. Itchiness. Mosquitoes can be annoying but can also be a carrier of many diseases, including malaria. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 198 million cases of malaria were estimated to have occurred and 500,000 died of the disease worldwide in 2013. Most of these cases are caused by malaria parasites […]

ytreesukosol ⋅ Perspectives in Research basic science, infectious disease, mosquito, parasites ⋅

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