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Stitziel honored by American Heart Association
Stitziel Nathan O. Stitziel, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine and of genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the American Heart Association’s Mid-Career Award...
View ArticlePagliarini named HHMI Investigator
David Pagliarini, the Hugo F. & Ina C. Urbauer Professor and a BJC Investigator in the Department of Cell Biology & Physiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has...
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Study reveals how brain cancer evolves in response to treatment
(Image: Jessica Johnson) Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown how brain tumors evolve in response to therapy, helping describe how such cancers develop...
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Rosa-Molinar named director of cellular imaging center
Rosa-Molinar Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, who develops and applies novel microscopy approaches to the study of neuronal connections that allow brain cells to communicate, has been named the new scientific...
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Gomez-Lopez receives award to study pregnancy complications
Gomez-Lopez Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a four-year $500,000 award from the Burroughs Wellcome...
View ArticleAccuracy of diagnostic blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease varies
Neurologists diagnose cognitive impairment with a clinical exam of memory and thinking skills. To determine whether Alzheimer’s disease is the cause of the cognitive impairment, evidence of the...
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García-Reyes, Castro named to Gilliam Fellows Program
Washington University in St. Louis doctoral candidate Rubén A. García-Reyes (left) and his adviser, Daniel C. Castro, have been named to the 2024 cohort of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)...
View ArticleNasal COVID-19 vaccine halts transmission
The lightning-fast development of COVID-19 vaccines just months after the virus appeared was a triumph of modern science and saved millions of lives. But for all the good they did in reducing...
View ArticleAging-related genomic culprit found in Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a way to capture the effects of aging in the development of Alzheimer’s disease. They have devised a method to study...
View ArticlePotential drug effective against flesh-eating bacteria
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a novel compound that effectively clears bacterial infections in mice, including those that can result in rare but...
View ArticleStrengthening the physician-scientist pipeline
When Andrew Chan, MD/PhD ’86, graduated from Northwestern University with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemistry in 1980, his animating vocational interests were science and helping people live...
View ArticleDNA fragments help detect kidney organ rejection
Raja Dandamudi, MD, an assistant professor of pediatrics, Vikas Dharnidharka, MD, a professor of pediatrics, and Tarek Alhamad, MD, a professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine...
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Blake essay recognized by Lasker Foundation
Blake Kevin Blake, scientific editor in the Department of Pathology & Immunology’s Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been...
View ArticleDrug bypasses suppressive immune cells to unleash immunotherapy
By recruiting the immune system to combat tumor cells, immunotherapy has improved survival rates, offering hope to millions of cancer patients. However, only about one in five people responds...
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Fehniger named to Lymphoma Research Foundation board
The Lymphoma Research Foundation has appointed Todd Fehniger, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, to its scientific advisory board. (Photo:...
View ArticleMahajan named Urologic Surgery Research Professor
Nupam Mahajan, a pioneering prostate cancer researcher, has been named the inaugural Urologic Surgery Research Professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Mahajan’s work has...
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Li, Rutherford awarded St. Baldrick’s Foundation research grants
Rutherford (left) and Li Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis faculty members Mark Rutherford, an associate professor of otolaryngology—head and neck surgery, and Yang E. Li, an...
View ArticleNasal COVID-19 vaccine halts transmission
The lightning-fast development of COVID-19 vaccines just months after the virus appeared was a triumph of modern science and saved millions of lives. But for all the good they did in reducing...
View ArticleAging-related genomic culprit found in Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a way to capture the effects of aging in the development of Alzheimer’s disease. They have devised a method to study...
View ArticlePotential drug effective against flesh-eating bacteria
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a novel compound that effectively clears bacterial infections in mice, including those that can result in rare but...
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