Teitelbaum awarded 2019 King Faisal International Prize in Medicine
Steven Teitelbaum, MD, the Wilma and Roswell Messing Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been awarded the King Faisal International Prize...
View ArticleNew clues discovered to lung transplant rejection
A lung transplant often remains the only option for many patients with end-stage lung disease, a condition that can be brought on by emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis, cystic fibrosis and other lung...
View ArticleDrug target identified for chemotherapy-resistant ovarian, breast cancer
People who inherit a faulty copy of the so-called “breast cancer genes” BRCA1 and BRCA2 are at high risk of cancer. About 10 percent of breast cancer cases and 15 percent of ovarian cancers can be...
View ArticleWomen’s brains appear three years younger than men’s
Time wears differently on women’s and men’s brains. While the brain tends to shrink with age, men’s diminish faster than women’s. The brain’s metabolism slows as people grow older, and this, too, may...
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Achilefu honored for achievements in biomedical optics
Achilefu Samuel Achilefu, the Michel M. Ter-Pogossian Professor of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is the 2019 recipient of the SPIE Britton Chance Award in...
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Less anesthesia during surgery doesn’t prevent post-op delirium
Many older adults who have major surgery experience postoperative delirium in the days after their operations. Previous research has suggested that closely monitoring the brain during surgery and...
View ArticleWashington People: Douglas Char
Douglas Char’s first deployment as a physician with a federal disaster medical assistance team took him to New York City in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Char and his colleagues treated...
View ArticleNerve transfer surgery gives hope to children with rare paralyzing illness
At Brandon Noblitt’s first appointment with Washington University surgeon Amy Moore, MD, a year ago, he was barely able to walk, mostly using a wheelchair to get around. Only 6 years old at the time,...
View ArticleThree faculty members named microbiology fellows
The American Academy of Microbiology has named three Washington University in St. Louis faculty members as fellows: Gautam Dantas, professor of pathology and immunology at the School of Medicine, and...
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For adult scoliosis, surgery, other treatments are viable options
For years, spine surgeons have debated the best methods for treating scoliosis in adults. Spinal curvature often results in more back pain, leg pain and other symptoms for adults than teens because...
View ArticleNeedlemans commit $15 million aimed at therapies for chronic diseases
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received a $15 million commitment from longtime benefactors Philip and Sima Needleman to support two cutting-edge research centers aimed at...
View ArticleUnnecessary testing for UTIs cut by nearly half
Tests to detect urinary tract infections (UTI) often are performed routinely in hospitals, even when patients don’t have symptoms. Such testing “just to be safe” can return results that lead doctors to...
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Penney named vice chair for community radiology
Penney Michael W. Penney, MD, associate professor of radiology, has been named vice chair for community radiology for Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) at Washington University School of...
View ArticleObituary: Stanley E. Thawley, professor emeritus of otolaryngology, 75
Stanley E. Thawley, MD, professor emeritus of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died Jan. 22, 2019, while at work in St. Louis. He was 75....
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Computational biology project aims to better understand protein folding
Greg Bowman, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is leading a supercomputing project called Folding@home. The project...
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White named director of Division of Palliative Medicine
White Patrick White, MD, assistant professor of medicine, has been named director of the newly formed Division of Palliative Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The...
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A new method for precision drug delivery: painting
If traditional drug delivery were a type of painting, it might be akin to paintball. With good aim, a majority of the paint ends on the bullseye, but it also drips and splashes, carrying streams of...
View Article$3.4 million aids effort to make a better flu vaccine
The influenza vaccine is only good for one flu season, partly because different strains of the virus circulate every year. But there’s another reason people must roll up their sleeves every fall for a...
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Developmental biologists win BioArt competition
An image of the maze-like structures of the mouse olfactory system recently was named a winner of the 2018 BioArt competition. The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology holds the...
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O’Keefe honored by Orthopaedic Research Society
O’Keefe Regis J. O’Keefe, MD, PhD, the Fred C. Reynolds Professor and head of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, received the Alfred R....
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