How it Works: Helping the Body Help Itself

When Dr. Locke J. Bryan, an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia and a physician with the Georgia Cancer Center, explains immunotherapy to his patients, he usually brings...

Ask the Experts: Cannabidiol, where are we now?

Now, more than four years later, a lot has changed. Epidiolex, the drug used in the study, has received approval from the FDA for the treatment of seizures in two of the most severe forms of epilepsy — Lennox-Gastaut...

From the Dean: Winter 2019

Sometimes, when I am thinking about where the Medical College of Georgia needs to be – and how to get it there – I think about where it has been. MCG is 190 years old this December, so there is clearly much to think...

News and Views: Winter 2019

Fighting Cancer Oxidative stress can help tumors thrive, but one way novel cancer treatments work is by pushing levels to the point where it instead helps tumors die, scientists report. Adoptive T cell therapy appears...

His Story

Dr. Edmund Krekorian fought in three wars—then wrote about it. He was 17 years old. Pearl Harbor was still a piercing memory, and like most young men of his age, his patriotic fervor burned. After enlisting in the U.S...

Life After

For Dr. Hammad Aslam, ’14, there is life before May 23, 2009, and there is life after. Before is when he was a recent University of Georgia graduate eagerly anticipating starting school at the Medical College of Georgia...

For nearly 200 years, Augusta University and its legacy institutions have been centers of learning and drivers of discovery and innovation in Augusta, the state of Georgia and beyond. Our community of alumni, students, faculty and friends are amazing people living incredible lives and making invaluable contributions to our world.

We are pleased to publish four magazines in which we get to tell their stories: