Aging-related genomic culprit found in Alzheimer’s disease

Researchers at the School of Medicine have developed a way to study aged neurons in the lab without a brain biopsy, allowing them to model late-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Tyson Center gets local high schoolers involved in research

Field research, science communication and . . . blood feeding. These were some of the skills that high school students learned this summer as part of WashU’s Tyson Environmental Research Apprenticeship.

Humans change their own behavior when training AI

Researchers from multiple disciplines at WashU teamed up to study how human behavior changes when training artificial intelligence.

Mahajan named Urologic Surgery Research Professor

Nupam Mahajan has been named the inaugural Urologic Surgery Research Professor at the School of Medicine. The honor recognizes his research advances on the genetic basis of prostate cancer.

Research Wire

Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, a professor at the School of Medicine, has received a four-year $500,000 award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund to identify biomarkers to predict preterm labor and birth.

Research Wire

Scientists at the McKelvey School of Engineering, led by Rohit Pappu, sort the rules governing putty-like biomolecular condensates. The research is published in Nature Physics.

Announcements

Gray appointed interim chief financial officer

David J. Gray has been appointed interim senior vice chancellor and chief financial officer, Chancellor Andrew D. Martin announced.