GW Integrated Biomedical Sciences
@GW_IBS
Home to PhD programs in Cancer Biology, Genomics & Bioinformatics, Microbiology & Immunology, Neuroscience and Pharmacology & Physiology
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GW Joins Multidisciplinary Scientific Society AAAS as Founding Institutional Member gwtoday.gwu.edu/gw-joins-multi…
GW Joins Multidisciplinary Scientific Society AAAS as Founding Institutional Member gwtoday.gwu.edu/gw-joins-multi…
Today we get to congratulate our newest #GWIBSFamily alumna Veronica Amuso for defending her dissertation on the Role of Dermal Fibroblasts during Injury-Induced Skin Inflammation! Dr. Amuso is also the first PhD grad (of many to come 😀) from the @shooklab 🧪🧬 🎊

A huge congratulations to the #GWIBSFamily PhD students who earned awards at our 2025 SMHS Research Showcase last week, and a big thank-you to our faculty judges who made the tough decisions! @KevinANestler @ShathaSalameh_ @C_M3lo_97 tinyurl.com/3zt9y9ya




We are looking forward to our 2025 SMHS Research Showcase taking place on Weds April 30! Join us from 9:00-11:30am for our graduate program posters (including GWIBS) and a keynote from Dr. Serena Spudich at noon! Full details here: smhs.gwu.edu/research/resea…




GW's SGA-sponsored Day for the Nations brought together fifty student organizations to share cultural pride, offer food dishes, perform dances, and share the geographical significance of many of the countries from which GW students or their families come. gwtoday.gwu.edu/gw-students-un…
Happening tomorrow April 17 - MITM seminar "Inputs and outputs of fungal-induced type 2 immunity" with Dr. Eric Van Dang!

When you're told the end of the semester is still more than 3 weeks away facebook.com/share/v/12FtB4…
Yesterday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser cut the ribbon on Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center, GW Health, the first new hospital to open in the city in 25 years! Read more about this exciting event attended by #GWSMHS and @GW_MFA representatives: bit.ly/3EpWKuY
NOW OPEN: Applications for the @AAAS STPF Rapid Response Cohort in AI! Applications will close on May 1 - apply now: aaas.org/ai-stpf-cohort Bring your expertise to meet the urgent need to shape AI policies. #artificialintelligence #scipol
Alumna Jonquel Jones, B.A. ’19, the 2021 WNBA most valuable player and reigning MVP of the WNBA Finals for the champion New York Liberty, will deliver the Commencement address at #GWCommencement on the National Mall on May 18. gwtoday.gwu.edu/reigning-wnba-…
2025 BIOINFORMATICS SYMPOSIUM- April 29th, 2025
Sending huge congratulations to our newest #GWIBSFamily alumna Dr. Shruti Gupta! Dr. Gupta defended her dissertation last week on the mechanisms of paralysis development and the therapeutic potential of TNFR2 activation in a rodent model of MS in the lab of Dr. Bethea!


So proud of our #GWIBSFamily PhD student Kailyn Price of the Polter lab for her nomination to the Bouchet Society! 🎉 🏆 🧠 Bouchet Society Students Recognized for Research and Advocacy gwtoday.gwu.edu/bouchet-societ…
Interested in learning more about becoming part of our GWIBS PhD student community? Come meet us tomorrow Fri March 14 from 10:30am-12:30pm during the graduate fair at the UMD McNair Conference in College Park! aap.umd.edu/2025mcnairconf…

A new cover photo for 2025 courtesy of #GWIBSFamily PhD student Sarah Kleb, who won this year's Art of Science contest! Thank you to Sarah and her mentor @ShookLab for this image of 3T3-L1 fibroblasts that have been differentiated into adipocytes 🎨 🖼️ 🔬 smhs.gwu.edu/research/resea…

Today we get to celebrate Dr. Susan Weiner, who defended her dissertation on the role of prenatal maternal stress & anxiety on children's neurodevelopment last week! We will also miss her invaluable efforts as a #GWIBSFamily ambassador in admissions and orientation 🧠 📜 🥳

We were overjoyed yesterday to support #GWIBSFamily PhD student Kailyn Price of the Polter lab as she was recognized as one of the newest members of the @gwucolumbian chapter of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society! Many congratulations to Kailyn and her fellow nominees.



Sending a huge congratulations to our #GWIBSFamily PhD students who captured all of the prizes at last month's 3MT Competition, and wishing Natalie Boyle luck as the GW representative in the regional event! Students Fast Track in Speed-Thesis Contest gwtoday.gwu.edu/beat-clock-stu…