Author: Brittney Wheeler

Anesthesiologist Michael S. Avidan, MBBCh, reproductive biologist Sarah K. England, PhD, and neurologist Timothy Miller, MD, PhD, all of the School of Medicine, have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine in the United States.

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Beverly Brozanski, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named the inaugural Susan and James C. Gould Professor of Pediatric Quality and Safety.

The National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded graduate student Lizzie Tilden an F30 fellowship that supports physician-scientists in training.  

Michelle M. Miller-Thomas, MD, and Monica Shokeen, associate professors of radiology, have been appointed to two new vice chair positions for the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at the School of Medicine.

Washington University Libraries recently received a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation for the photochemical preservation of a 1963 short film produced on the Washington University campus, titled “Once Upon a Hill … There was a School!”

A large, multidisciplinary team at the School of Medicine has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to tackle complex problems in neuroscience.

The Ann W. and Spencer T. Olin-Chancellor’s Fellowship will host the 2023 “She Leads Symposium @ WashU” from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 20 in Knight Hall’s Emerson Auditorium.

Jason Yi and Harrison Gabel, both at the School of Medicine, each have received two-year, $300,000 pilot grants from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative. The researchers will use the funds to investigate genetic diseases that result in autism.

Ying (Maggie) Chen, MD, PhD, at the School of Medicine, has received a match grant of $30,000 from the Center for Drug Discovery at Washington University. The grant will help fund proof of concept and related research directed toward targeting a novel receptor to treat uromodulin-associated chronic kidney disease.