Ivy Day Award Winners for 2023 -
Jun 01, 2023
Ivy Day traces its origin to 1909 when the eminent dermatologist and internationally acknowledged authority on Hansen’s Disease, Isadore Dyer, M.D., became Dean of the School of Medicine. He served as Dean until 1920. At the laying of the cornerstone of the Richardson building on the university campus that year, a sprig of ivy was brought from the School of Medicine building on Canal Street as a symbol of the transplanted and continuing part of...
Tulane researchers awarded Ladies Leukemia League grants -
May 31, 2023
Two Tulane Cancer Center researchers – Zhen Lin, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology and Technical Director of Molecular Pathology Laboratory at Tulane University School of Medicine; and William C. Wimley, PhD, George A. Adrouny Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Tulane School of Medicine – were each recently awarded $35,000 Ladies Leukemia League (LLL) grants to help support...
Tulane Class of 2023: Student earns dual degrees and military promotion -
May 26, 2023
Wyatt Smith added three new titles to his growing list of accomplishments last week. A former Duke football player, Smith graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine with a Doctor of Medicine degree and earned a Master of Public Health from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He was also promoted to Captain in the U.S. Army at a pinning ceremony scheduled between his Class of 2023 celebrations.
There‘s...
Tulane students celebrate medical school completion with diploma ceremony -
May 23, 2023
With all exams complete, new jobs lined up across the country, and the next chapter ready to begin, 175 students from Tulane University School of Medicine gathered one last time to celebrate their accomplishments. Press play on the video above to watch highlights from the diploma ceremony celebrating the Class of 2023.
Tulane honors Biomedical Sciences Class of 2023 -
May 19, 2023
Proud family members and friends filled McAlister Auditorium to help celebrate the Class of 2023. The ceremony recognized 113 students who earned master's degrees and 14 students who earned PhDs in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program at Tulane University School of Medicine. Watch the highlights in the video link above.
Student speaker, Tulane 34 recipient graduating with three degrees -
May 18, 2023
After six years of intense study, Arianne D. Sacramento’s time at Tulane is ending. She will be graduating in May with three degrees, including a Doctor of Medicine (MD), a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Master of Public Health (MPH).
Sacramento turned in her last paper for her MPH and finished her final elective toward her MD in April.
“It was a surreal feeling,” she said. “But Dr. Sacramento is moving back to Sacramento.” She...
Tulane Class of 2023: Chance conversation inspires a career in medicine -
May 17, 2023
A chance encounter at her neighborhood library brought Mashli Fleurestil from Pembroke Pines, Florida to New Orleans. Fleurestil was hours late for a GRE study session when she struck up a conversation with someone who had just graduated with a Master of Science in Pharmacology from the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program at Tulane University School of Medicine. That serendipitous meeting began Fleurestil’s journey to become a physician.
“I...
Tulane Medicine team prepares for BIO2023 -
May 12, 2023
The annual Biotechnology Innovation Organization conference, better known as BIO, attracts thousands of biotechnology and pharmacology leaders from around the globe. Researchers and business leaders from Tulane University School of Medicine will be among the 14,000+ in attendance at BIO2023 to spread the word about the research and innovation happening here.
BIO gives the Tulane Medicine team the opportunity to connect with existing...
Tulane Class of 2023: A doctoral degree decades in the making -
May 12, 2023
Jaikin Harrell knew she wanted to be a scientist in the sixth grade. The years since have been filled with hard work – first earning a bachelor’s degree in biology, then a Master of Science in Pharmacology. Harrell’s long-standing goal will finally be complete next week when she earns her doctoral degree from the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program at Tulane University School of Medicine.
“One of my science teachers from middle school watched...
NIH awards Tulane $2.3 million to study link between COVID-19 and cognitive decline -
May 10, 2023
Since the early days of the pandemic, researchers and patients alike have noticed a link between COVID-19 infection and cognitive impairment. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists dementia as a risk factor for contracting COVID-19, and a 2022 review found that patients with dementia were two to five times more likely to die as a result of COVID-19 infection than the general population.
Now, Tulane University has been awarded a $2...
Boehringer Ingelheim to host Grass Roots program with Tulane University School of Medicine -
May 05, 2023
Pharmaceutical giant Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) launched its Grass Roots initiative to mentor early-stage companies, providing access to expertise and giving an industry perspective and feedback to emerging life-sciences businesses. BI and Tulane University School of Medicine are bringing two of those Grass Roots programs, Office Hours and the Boehringer Ingelheim Academy, to New Orleans.
“We’re thrilled to be hosting the first Office Hours in...
Tulane's Vision for Charity Hospital Building -
May 05, 2023
Tulane President Michael Fitts and School of Medicine Dean Lee Hamm discuss the history and future plans for the Charity Hospital building, in which Tulane will be the anchor tenant. Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
National Academy of Medicine President to speak at medical student diploma ceremony -
May 03, 2023
Tulane University School of Medicine is proud to announce Dr. Victor J. Dzau, MD, as this year’s speaker for the Class of 2023 medical student diploma ceremony. Dr. Dzau is President of the National Academy of Medicine; and Chancellor Emeritus and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Duke University. Dzau will address the nearly 190 Tulane students earning their medical degrees Saturday, May 20.
Dr. Dzau has a long and...
Pink Bra Run benefits breast cancer research at Tulane -
Apr 28, 2023
The Pink Bra Run is one of the best running events of the year, offering a flat course, gorgeous views of the Mississippi River, and a big celebration with hundreds of people – even dogs -decked out in festive shades of pink.
What also makes the Pink Bra Run great in our eyes is how this annual event raises money for Tulane Cancer Center’s Breast Cancer Research Fund. Organizer Krewe de Pink has raised more than $197,500 since 2016 to help...
Tulane medical student named Emerging Leader in Biosecurity fellow -
Apr 28, 2023
Aleksandar Stoller spent 10 years working in foreign policy before coming to Tulane University School of Medicine. Now in his third year of medical school, Stoller received a fellowship that combines his former career with his new one. The Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity (ELBI) Fellowship from the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins Bloomburg School of Public Health is a highly competitive, part-time program designed to develop the...
