MCG researchers discovered nearly 20 years ago that tumors and fetuses use the enzyme IDO to escape the immune response. A drug that blocks that pathway is now helping children with relapsed brain cancer. Hen Smadga did...
Right Place, Right Time
A new endowed chair named for Dr. William S. Hagler recognizes the work of the MCG graduate and retina and vitreous surgery pioneer. The mahogany case holds all the tools a Civil War surgeon would need – engraved saws...
Alumni and Philanthropy News: The Non-Traditionalist
For students entering medicine as a second career, Dr. Carol Meyer is giving them a leg up. It was a different time, to say the least. Dr. Carol Meyer (’67) had plans to become a physician. As a young child, the Florida...
Alumni and Philanthropy News: Inaugural endowed chairs named in neuroscience and vascular biology
Dr. Darrell Brann, Regents’ Professor and vice chair of the Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine at MCG, has been named the Virendra B. Mahesh, PhD, DPhil Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience. The Mahesh...
A Closer Look
$12.8 million grant drives national diabetes complication research forward Dr. Richard A. McIndoe, bioinformatics expert and associate director of the Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine at the Medical College...
Better Bones
Tiny tears in osteocytes may offer clues to improving bone health The force that gravity and physical activity put on our bones causes tiny tears in the membranes of the tiny cells that enable us to make or break down...
