Author: Brittney Wheeler

The Danforth Staff Council at WashU has added 10 new members and elected its executive officers for the academic year.

WashU Medicine faculty members received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop the Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, a two-year mentored research experience.

A specialized approach to treating childhood depression developed by WashU Medicine researchers leads to long-term remission and other benefits, according to a new study.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded David M. Ornitz, MD, PhD, of WashU Medicine, $740,000 annually for four years to support research aimed at understanding respiratory complications associated with premature birth.

Fixing problems with cholesterol metabolism might help slow or prevent age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in older adults, a new WashU Medicine study in mice has shown.

Occupational therapy faculty member Kelly Harris, at WashU Medicine, will receive a $425,000 award to develop and test a technology-enabled care coordination service model to support Black youth with asthma.

WashU Medicine neurosurgeon Dimitrios Mathios, MD, has developed a liquid biopsy that is aided by machine-learning tools to improve the detection of brain cancers.

Researchers at WashU Medicine received a $12 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to deepen understanding of autism and other neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders that are caused by a single gene mutation.

Kristina Sauerwein, a senior sciences writer in Marketing & Communications at WashU Medicine, has received her fifth Robert G. Fenley Writing Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

A study in Nature led by Weikai Li at WashU Medicine reveals the molecular details of how vitamin K-dependent gamma carboxylase operates, a critical step in the blood clotting process.