Author: Brittney Wheeler

Research from WashU Medicine found a possible new treatment strategy for certain types of blood cancers.

Researchers at WashU Medicine have described the neurodegeneration that occurs in the nervous system of the bowel in Batten disease, a rare and fatal genetic condition.

A phase 1 clinical trial co-led by researchers at WashU Medicine found that a new type of cell-based immunotherapy was safe for patients with several types of B-cell lymphoma, a type of blood cancer.

Mice infected with the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) fared better when treated with an experimental compound that modulates immune responses, according to a study led by Christina Stallings, a professor of molecular microbiology at WashU Medicine.

WashU Medicine researchers have been awarded nearly $5 million to better understand what causes pain symptoms to persist in some patients recovering from surgery.

Kory Lavine, MD, PhD, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Cardiology at WashU Medicine, has received a $600,000 grant from the Additional Ventures Foundation — an organization that funds research into congenital heart disease — to study hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

Nusayba Bagegni, MD, an associate professor at WashU Medicine, has been awarded a 2024 Early Career Cancer Clinical Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

People with severe, treatment-resistant depression who received vagus nerve stimulation therapy showed improvement in depressive symptoms, quality of life and ability to complete everyday tasks, according to a national clinical trial led by researchers at WashU Medicine.

Burel R. Goodin, a professor of anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, has received more than $3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support postdoctoral training.

A new, artificial intelligence-based method of analyzing mammograms, developed by researchers at WashU Medicine, identified individuals at high risk of developing breast cancer more accurately than the standard, questionnaire-based method did.