Author: Brittney Wheeler

Geoffrey Goodhill, professor of developmental biology and neuroscience at the School of Medicine, has received a two-year $675,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to enhance the capabilities of light field microscopy for brain imaging.

Members of the Washington University community are encouraged to nominate honorary degree candidates for the May 2023 Commencement. The deadline is Feb. 1.

Nominations are being accepted for Washington University’s annual Faculty Achievement Awards, known as the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award and the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award. The nomination deadline is Feb. 11.

A new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital helps explain why mRNA vaccines have been so successful at preventing severe disease.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine are working to develop new treatments for two types of devastating parasitic infections common in sub-Saharan Africa and Central and South America: river blindness and intestinal worm infections.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine are conducting an Alzheimer’s prevention trial with young adults from high-risk families to evaluate whether an investigational drug can clear a key Alzheimer’s protein, amyloid beta, and slow or stop the disease.

Thomas M. De Fer, MD, a nationally recognized leader in medical education, has been named director of the Division of General Medicine within the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine.

Roberto Galletto at the School of Medicine received a five-year $2.1 million MIRA grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Daniel Scott Marcus, professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, received a one-year $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Daniel Griffith, a predoctoral trainee in biochemistry at the School of Medicine, received a three-year $138,000 Graduate Research Fellowship award from the National Science Foundation.