Author: Brittney Wheeler

WashU Medicine construction projects will temporarily affect pedestrian traffic around Ellen S. Clark Hope Plaza and Wohl Circle. Also, the Bridge Renewal project to repair water infiltration in the tunnels and utilities below campus enters a new phase.

A multi-center study led by researchers at WashU Medicine and Michigan Medicine found that breathing problems during sleep are widespread among newborns with a severe form of spina bifida and could be a promising target for early interventions to improve the babies’ neurodevelopment.

Researchers at WashU Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have shown that disease-associated bacteria in the gut can be detected through exhaled breath. The findings could pave the way for a rapid, non-invasive breath test to assess gut microbiome health.

Samuel Klein, MD, the William H. Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science at WashU Medicine, has received the Endocrine Society’s Outstanding Clinical Investigator Award.

The second annual WashU Data Viz competition is now open and accepting submissions until Jan. 25. Students, faculty and staff are invited to participate.

In a new study, WashU Medicine researchers show that vagus nerve stimulation provides substantial, long-lasting relief to some people with the most severe treatment-resistant depression.

Startups built on WashU discoveries attracted a record $1.7 billion in private-sector investment over the past year, accelerating the commercialization of WashU innovations into life-changing diagnostics, therapeutics and medical devices.

In a new study, WashU Medicine researchers found that widely prescribed drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall don’t affect attention-controlling regions of the brain, as previously thought, but rather act on areas involved in wakefulness and reward.

Benjamin Garcia, the Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished Professor and head of the WashU Medicine Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, has received the American Chemical Society’s 2025 Saint Louis Section Award.

WashU Medicine researchers show that psychedelic compounds such as psilocybin appear to distort the link between blood flow and brain-cell functioning, which scientists use to track brain activity.