Timothy J. Ley, MD, a leukemia researcher and hematologist at the School of Medicine, received a seven-year, $6.4 million Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The funding allows him to continue research aimed at understanding the mutations that initiate acute myeloid leukemia.

Arpita Bose, PhD, assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has been named a Packard Fellow, a prestigious distinction awarded to only 18 top young researchers nationwide this year. Bose plans to use the grant to work with unusual microbes that can take electrons directly from an outside source to draw down atmospheric carbon dioxide or to make sustainable biofuels.

Washington University researchers led by Srikanth Singamaneni, PhD, of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, are using color-shifting nanoparticles of ​gold, combined with specifically engineered artificial antibodies, to detect biochemical signs of kidney damage.​

Historian Jay Winter, PhD, of Yale University, will give this year’s Holocaust Memorial Lecture, speaking on war and the Armenian genocide. He examines the psychological impact of 20th-century European history on people and nations, and his address will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, in Umrath Hall Lounge.