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News and Views
Sugar Coat It Sugar coating on our cells is hardly icing. Rather, it is essential to cell health and ours. Now, scientists have also developed a way to identify biomarkers for a wide range of diseases by assessing antibodies to the complex sugars...
Silencing Cancer’s Siren Call
Aggressive, deadly tumors like glioblastoma and metastatic breast cancer have in common a siren call that beckons the bone marrow to send along whatever they need to survive and thrive. Blocking production of the chemical that initiates that call...
Alumni and Philanthropy News: Dear Fellow Alumni
Dear Fellow Alumni, Like many of you, I find that between a busy medical practice, a hectic family life, membership in professional or civic organizations, and country club participation, it seems that there is little time left for other endeavors...
Alumni and Philanthropy News: The Broken Road
If Plan B had happened, it would have been Douglas Lundy, PharmD or Douglas Lundy, DVM. But it wouldn’t have been Plan A. Not that there is anything wrong with a career in pharmacy or in veterinary care, if they’re your first choice. But Lundy—who...
More Alumni and Philanthropy News
2018 MCG Distinguished Alumni A retinal ophthalmologist who created the first retina service between Baltimore and Miami, bringing new sight-saving procedures to people in eight Southeastern states, and a longtime MCG Department of Radiology and...
