Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Researchers at Northwestern Medicine have developed a new and faster approach to determine if a treatment for the brain cancer glioblastoma is working.

The Canning Thoracic Institute became the highest-volume lung transplant center in the US and achieved the shortest wait time for a lung transplant.

Seeking a second opinion, Arthur “Art” Gillespie turned to Northwestern Medicine for a life-saving double-lung transplant procedure.

A consequence of the Alabama Supreme Court’s in vitro fertilization ruling is an unacceptably high risk of infertility for patients with cancer.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered the Achilles heel of chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer—its hunger for cholesterol.

New technique made human T cells 100 times more potent at killing cancer cells.

The Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute Hispanic Program was recently launched to offer personalized care for lung and thoracic patients in their native language, making life-saving care more accessible for the Hispanic community and people who prefer to speak Spanish by removing cultural and linguistic barriers.

Scientists develop ‘QR code for cancer cells,’ like tagging swans in a pond.

Northwestern Medicine scientists report results of the first in-human clinical trial in which they used a novel, skull-implantable ultrasound device to open the blood-brain barrier and repeatedly permeate large, critical regions of the human brain to deliver chemotherapy that was injected intravenously.

For the second time at Northwestern Medicine, surgeons have successfully performed a double-lung transplant on a patient with stage 4 lung cancer who was being considered for hospice.