Taylor Avenue closing each night Feb. 2-11
Beginning at 6 p.m., Monday, Feb. 2, Taylor Avenue between McKinley and Clayton avenues will be reduced to two lanes of traffic each night until Feb. 11 for the installation of Ameren substation feeder...
View ArticlePike receives medical research grant
Linda J. Pike, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, received a four-year, $1.76 million grant from the National Institute of...
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Shared symptoms of Chikungunya virus, rheumatoid arthritis may cloud diagnosis
James Gathany/CDCA virus spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito can cause symptoms very similar to rheumatoid arthritis, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown.A...
View ArticleJournal chooses two medical researchers' papers as among best published in 2014
A pair of papers from researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are among those chosen as the best papers published by The Journal of Biological Chemistry during 2014....
View ArticleURSA grants awarded to eight teams
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at Washington University in St. Louis has announced the eight winners of the 2014 University Research Strategic Alliance (URSA) grants.URSA grants provide...
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Washington People: Shin-ichiro Imai
Robert BostonShin-ichiro Imai, MD, PhD, (second from left) leads a research team that investigates the processes of aging and longevity in mammals. From the left are Alessia Grozio, postdoctoral...
View ArticleRandolph receives NIH research grant
Gwendalyn Randolph, PhD, professor of pathology and immunology and of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a two-year, $419,271 grant from the National...
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Medical school art show illustrates range of talents
Robert BostonBrandon Blue, MD, an instructor in medicine, talks to his son, Brayden Blue, about art on display in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center on the Medical Campus. The two looked at an...
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IUD, implant contraception effective beyond FDA-approved use
ROBERT BOSTONNew research indicates that hormonal IUDs, pictured here, and contraceptive implants remain highly effective one year beyond their approved duration of use, according to a study at...
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$5 million funds research to develop drugs for common cold, respiratory diseases
Robert BostonThe Drug Discovery Program led by Michael Holtzman, MD, has received $5 million in funding to support research to find new treatments for respiratory diseases. A Washington University drug...
View ArticleDuncan/Newstead intersection to close Feb. 25
Starting Feb. 25 and continuing for about two months, the intersection of Duncan and Newstead avenues will close as a Metropolitan Sewer District storm sewer line upgrade continues. Sections of Duncan...
View ArticleKulkarni receives excellence award, grants
Shashikant Kulkarni, PhD, associate professor of pathology and immunology, of pediatrics and of genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and medical director of cytogenomics...
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England named Wolff Professor of Medicine
MARK BEAVENSarah England, PhD, the newly installed Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Medicine, is pictured with (from left) Larry J. Shapiro, MD, executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and...
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New approach to childhood malnutrition may reduce relapses, deaths
Courtesy photoIndi Trehan, MD, measures the height of a young girl in Malawi as part of a malnutrition study. The research was aimed at reducing the high rate of relapse in children previously...
View ArticleZinselmeyer receives digestive disease research grant
Bernd Zinselmeyer, PhD, research instructor in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a one-year, $40,400 grant from the...
View ArticleGubin receives cancer research grant
Matthew Gubin, PhD, postdoctoral research scholar in the laboratory of Robert Schreiber, PhD, Alumni Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has...
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Mothers can pass traits to offspring through bacteria's DNA
Robert BostonStudying mice, Herbert W. Virgin, MD, PhD (left), and Thad Stappenbeck, MD, PhD, have shown that mothers can pass a trait to their offspring through the DNA of bacteria. The finding...
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Obituary: David B. Gray, professor of occupational therapy and of neurology, 71
David B. Gray David B. Gray, PhD, a professor of occupational therapy who worked tirelessly to improve the lives of people with disabilities, died Thursday, Feb.12, 2015, in St. Louis of an apparent...
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Cole, Hultgren, Loeb receive 2014 2nd Century Awards
Mark BeavenFrom the left, Scott J. Hultgren, PhD, Carol B. Loeb and F. Sessions Cole, MD, each received the 2014 2nd Century Award from Washington University School of Medicine. Honored for their many...
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Scientists unveil map of human epigenomes in effort to fight disease
Robert BostonFrom left: Graduate student GiNell Elliott, Ting Wang, PhD, and graduate student Rebecca Lowdon worked with scientists worldwide to assemble a comprehensive map of DNA markers. Known as...
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