Author: Brittney Wheeler

A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard suggests that women who get recurrent urinary tract infections may be caught in a vicious cycle in which antibiotics given to eradicate one infection predispose them to develop another.

Kenneth M. Murphy, MD, PhD, the Eugene Opie First Centennial Professor of Pathology & Immunology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for T cell research.

Qin Liu, associate professor at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research on respiratory allergies.

Researchers from the Washington University Center for the Study of Itch and Sensory Disorders have identified a specific neuropeptide and a neural circuit that transmit pleasant touch from the skin to the brain. The findings eventually may help scientists better understand and treat disorders characterized by touch avoidance and impaired social development.

The Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, established in 2005 by Yale University and Howard University to recognize outstanding scholarly achievement, recently inducted four WashU doctoral candidates.

The Washington University Police Department has earned reaccreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies.

Research led by the School of Medicine has demonstrated that analyzing synthetic data generated from real COVID-19 patients accurately replicates the results of the same analyses conducted on the real patient data. The school has been a national leader in deploying and evaluating technology for the production of synthetic data, which is key for data-sharing collaborations.

The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs presented outstanding mentor awards to Alexxai Kravitz, James Stroud and John Russell at the recent annual Postdoc Symposium.

Stephen T. Oh, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and of pathology and immunology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.46 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for molecular hematology training.

A podcast created by two Arts & Sciences students was among 10 finalists in the “College Podcast Challenge” from National Public Radio.