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Finding ways to diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s disease has frustrated scientists and clinicians for decades. But now the battle has reached a potentially significant milestone: the launch of the first clinical trials to test whether giving new drug treatments before dementia can prevent Alzheimer’s. Shown are School of Medicine Alzheimer’s researchers Randall Bateman, MD (left) and John C. Morris, MD.
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Andrew Brimer and Abigail Cohen, May graduates of the School of Engineering & Applied Science and co-founders of the med-tech startup Sparo Labs, have won the $150,000 CIMIT Student Technology Prize for Primary Care, bringing their total competition winnings to more than $275,000. Their company aims to help patients more effectively manage asthma.
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The School of Law’s Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series kicks off at noon today in Anheuser-Busch Hall with James Cavallaro, Stanford University law professor. His talk is titled “The Toxic Effects of Drone Strikes on Targeted Communities, the Global Role of the U.S. and Our Constitutional and Democratic Principles.” Cavallaro is director of the Stanford International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic and the Stanford Human Rights Center. For more information, visit here.
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The Saint Louis Art Museum and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts have announced that Los Angeles-based artist Won Ju Lim and Brooklyn-based artist Mariam Ghani will serve as Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellows for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years.
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The Family Learning Center at WUSTL recently held a birthday party for children and parents to celebrate the center’s third anniversary. Shown is 2-year-old Lucas Gerst, who attended the party with his mother, Kellie Gerst, a nurse anesthetist at the School of Medicine.
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Noon Monday, Sept. 23
“Implementation Challenges in Resource-Poor Settings – HIV as an Example” by William Powderly, J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine and dir., Inst. for Public Health. Co-sponsored by Global Health Scholars in Medicine program. Free and open to the public. Agenda/event details. Wohl Hospital Bldg. Aud. Contact: bnajarro@dom.wustl.edu.
4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 23
Keynote address “Egypt: From Uprising to ‘Coup’ to Demo-
cracy?” by Samer S. Shehata, assoc. prof. of Middle East Studies, U. of Oklahoma. (Until 6 p.m.) Sponsored by Dept. of Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and College of Arts & Sciences. Free and open to the public. Event details. Umrath Hall Lounge. (314) 935-5110.
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The Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences (PACS) at the School of Medicine has received a five-year, $1.18 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to prepare graduate-level teachers of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
The WUSTL volleyball team will host its annual “Dig for Pink” breast cancer awareness night during its match against University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Friday, Sept. 27. The Bears also will hold a benefit Tuesday, Sept. 24, at Chill Frozen Yogurt in Clayton. Proceeds benefit the Siteman Cancer Center.
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Nephrologist is a longtime, vocal advocate for patients. FULL STORY
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