Author: Brittney Wheeler

David Warren, a grant analyst in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at Washington University in St. Louis, died July 17, 2022, at his home in Olivette, Mo. He was 66.

Arts & Sciences’ new internal grant program, “Seeding Projects for Enabling Excellence & Distinction” (SPEED), aims to spur novel and impactful research, scholarship and creative practice initiatives. Leaders have chosen the first cohort of grant winners.

Nathan Singh, MD, an assistant professor in the Division of Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine, has received a Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

Xiuli Liu, MD, PhD, a professor of pathology and immunology at Washington University School of Medicine, has been elected president of the Chinese American Pathologists Association.

William McKinnon in Arts & Sciences received a $164,255 award from NASA and the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to support his work on a project to study Jupiter’s moon Europa.

Denise Head, professor of psychological and brain sciences, and Jeffrey Zacks, associate chair and professor of psychological and brain sciences, both in Arts & Sciences, won a five-year $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for work on aging and development.

The work of Washington University’s Death to Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic Filariasis (DOLF) Project, which performs research in support of global efforts to eliminate neglected tropical diseases, has been recognized with a Public Library of Science (PLoS) collection of publications.

Aadel A. Chaudhuri, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of radiation oncology at Washington University School of Medicine, will receive the 2022 Michael Fry Research Award from the Radiation Research Society.

Washington University’s Michael Greenberg, Kory J. Lavine, MD. PhD, and Nathaniel D. Huebsch have received a three-year $300,000 grant from the American Heart Association to study the immune system in cardiac disease pathogenesis and repair.

Claire Masteller, in Arts & Sciences, won a $313,872 National Science Foundation grant for collaborative research that will help scientists distinguish between climate-driven change and the natural variability of river channels.