Author: Brittney Wheeler

Richard Vierstra, the George and Charmaine Mallinckrodt Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences, received a $62,707 supplemental grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in support of his phytochrome research.

Petra Levin, professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, received an $84,616 equipment supplement from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to purchase a new chromatography system.

The Postdoc Peer Mentorship Program at WashU is accepting applications for experienced postdoctoral researchers who would like to serve as a mentor as well as new postdocs who would like a mentor on both the Danforth and Medical campuses. The application deadline is Jan. 14.

Daniel Kerschensteiner, MD, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2 million grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study visual pathways.

Two research teams at Washington University — one led by Joyce Balls-Berry; the other led by Darrell Hudson and Ganesh Babulal — have received grants totaling $7 million to advance racial equity in Alzheimer’s disease research.

Jeffrey Catalano, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, won a $295,464 major research instrumentation grant from the National Science Foundation to acquire a laboratory-based X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy instrument.

Samuel Achilefu, the Michel M Ter-Pogossian Professor of Radiology at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $2.2 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research imaging techniques during surgery.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have shown, in a small clinical trial, that pre-activated natural killer cells can help some children and young adults with recurrent acute myeloid leukemia and few other treatment options.

Asthma has been associated with a lowered risk of brain tumors, and researchers at Washington University School of Medicine now think they know why: Immune cells activated under conditions of asthma are less able to promote the growth of brain tumors.

Henric Krawczynski and Johanna Nagy, in the Department of Physics in Arts & Sciences, received a two-year $459,050 award from NASA to test an array of quantum sensors on a one-day balloon flight to launch from New Mexico in 2023.