The Record

Mobilizing the best to start the fight earlier

A multidisciplinary clinic brings WashU Medicine physicians and researchers together to offer diagnostics such as precision radiology and resources such as access to clinical trials to younger patients facing colorectal cancer.

WashU researchers map individual brain dynamics

Neuroscientists and engineers at WashU have set up computer frameworks that can help model individual brain dynamics. The work, published in PNAS, has applications in personalized medicine.

Law students work to right injustices

WashU law students are gaining real-world experience as they help those wrongfully convicted of crimes in WashU Law’s Clinical Education program. It’s one example of what WashU can do.

Perseverance rover hunts rare earth elements on Mars

A research team led by Scott VanBommel, in Arts & Sciences, assessed a Mars rover’s ability to detect geochemical features that could help scientists understand the possibility of past life on Mars.

Research Wire

The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded Aimilia Gastounioti, an assistant professor at WashU Medicine, a five-year $3 million grant to improve breast cancer risk assessments for Black women.

Research Wire

With support from the U.S. Department of Defense, a team of WashU computer scientists is working to improve generative artificial intelligence for use in inaccessible, remote or embattled environments.

Announcements

Competition submissions sought

Submissions are being accepted until Thursday, Feb. 6, for the first-ever WashU Data Viz competition.