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We are Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, located in downtown Chicago, Illinois.

10/30/2026

In Why I Teach, Feinberg educators share the experiences, perspectives, and motivations that shape how they teach the next generation of physicians. Meet Angelique Duenas, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medical Education at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She brings creativity to her classroom with hands-on, sensory-based activities that help medical students understand complex anatomy concepts.

10/29/2026

Three Northwestern faculty members—Maciej S. Lesniak, Ali Shilatifard and Donald Lloyd-Jones—have been inducted into the National Academy of Medicine. 👏

Membership is considered among the most prestigious honors in the medical and scientific community: http://spr.ly/6187BHreQv

10/16/2026

This year, 450 residents and fellows joined McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, beginning their training across Northwestern Medicine’s hospitals and 180 residency and fellowship programs: http://spr.ly/6186BHMYmw

10/02/2026

Northwestern University recently awarded more than $2.1 million through the Pat & Shirley Ryan Family Research Acceleration Fund to advance eight biomedical research projects with strong translational potential.

09/25/2026

Check out the latest issue of Northwestern Medicine Magazine: https://magazine.nm.org/

Feinberg investigators are developing and testing new strategies to fight pancreatic cancer, with the hope of extending survival rates.

09/23/2026

Ovaries are one of the first organs to age, and their decline shapes women’s health decades later.

Meet three Northwestern scientists who are uncovering how they age, developing ways to measure that process noninvasively & identifying molecular targets that could one day slow it. http://spr.ly/6189B1rsgF

09/22/2026

What can the ovaries teach us about living longer, healthier lives? Francesca Duncan, PhD, is featured in TIME's Longevity Leaders series for her groundbreaking research into ovarian aging. Her work explores how changes in the ovaries may offer important insights into fertility, women’s health, and the biology of aging throughout the body.

“Pretty much every organ system you can think of is touched by the ovaries,” says Francesca Duncan, a reproductive biologist at Northwestern University and Buck Institute for Research on Aging

09/16/2026

When temperatures spike, emergency physicians expect to see more cases of dehydration and heat stroke. But a new Northwestern University study suggests that extreme heat also is linked to a much wider range of health problems seen in emergency departments and urgent care clinics, including skin cond...

09/08/2026

Every step counts for better heart health! 👣 In a new essay for TIME, Northwestern's Sadiya Khan, MD, MSc, explains why the familiar goal of 10,000 steps a day isn’t based on hard evidence and why even modest increases in daily movement can provide meaningful health benefits: https://time.com/article/2026/08/16/every-step-counts-better-heart-health-sadiya-khan-essay/

Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago is a research-intensive medical school preparing physicians and scientists to become leaders in their fields.

08/25/2026

Northwestern scientists have found that Chicago neighborhoods with greater losses of tree canopy experienced higher mortality rates, particularly in the city’s hottest areas.

Study tracked association between death rates and tree canopy changes across 11 years in Chicago.

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https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/

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