Comprehensive Head & Neck Tumor Center established

The School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital have established a comprehensive Head & Neck Tumor Center, a multispecialty practice of physicians and researchers whose mission is to provide cutting-edge patient care.

Virtual drug quiets noise in heart tissue images

Research in the labs of Nate Huebsch and Guy Genin at the McKelvey School of Engineering created software to enable experiments for learning how electrical and mechanical heart functions relate. It is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Partnership key to chronic disease prevention, study finds

Responding to complex health inequities requires collaborative partnerships, finds a study from the Brown School. Researchers evaluated a program of health organizations working to increase participation in lifestyle-change programs.

Research Wire

Fred Ssewamala (pictured) and Byron Powell, both at the Brown School, have won a five-year $3.5 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for a new study in Uganda.

Research Wire

Yajie Yuan, an assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, will lead a study of plasmas in neutron star magnetospheres, as part of a new collaboration funded by the Simons Foundation.

Announcements

Reminder: emergency test Tuesday

WashU plans to test its emergency communication system at 9:55 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19. The test ensures WashU can effectively communicate with the community in an emergency.