Siteman Cancer Center plans nine-story outpatient facility

Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the School of Medicine is planning a 659,000-square-foot, nine-story facility on the Medical Campus that will be dedicated to outpatient cancer care. The building’s design and construction details are being finalized.

When stubborn bugs refuse to make drugs

Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by biologist Joshua Blodgett in Arts & Sciences highlights comparative metabologenomics as a powerful approach to expose the features that differentiate strong from weak antibiotic producers.

’Til the cows come home

New research led by archaeologists in Arts & Sciences shows that meat and dairy played a more significant role in human diets in Bronze Age China than previously thought. The analysis suggests that farmers and herders tended to sheep and goats differently than their cows.

WashU Expert on investing in child development accounts

Democrats have called for a permanent expansion of the monthly child tax credit. In making it permanent, lawmakers can leverage the power of child development accounts to build assets for all U.S. children, said Michael Sherraden, an expert on asset building at the Brown School.

Research Wire

Michael J. Krawczynski in Arts & Sciences received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to research the evolution of super-hydrous magmas in the Earth’s crust. Krawczynski will explore how water affects the evolution of volcanoes and their behavior.

Research Wire

Meredith Jackrel of Arts & Sciences and Jai Rudra at the McKelvey School of Engineering received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research nanofiber materials that will eliminate the need for vaccine adjuvants.

Notables

This year’s W.M. Keck Fellowships in Molecular Medicine have been awarded to three postdoctoral researchers at Washington University: Jessica Higginbotham, Emily Madden and Paeton Wantuch. The fellowships are funded with a gift from the W.M. Keck Foundation.

Michael M. Mueckler, professor emeritus, 67

Michael M. Mueckler, professor emeritus of cell biology and physiology at the School of Medicine, died July 14 of natural causes at his home in Creve Coeur, Mo. He was 67. Mueckler studied how the body regulates blood sugar and how this regulation goes awry in diabetes.