Author: Brittney Wheeler

Heath Rutledge-Jukes, 25, a second-year student at WashU Medicine, has earned a spot on Forbes’ “30 Under 30” education list.

Neuroscientist Juliet Mwirigi, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, has been named a Hanna H. Gray Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

A Washington man who inherited a mutation that should have caused him to develop Alzheimer’s decades ago remains mentally sharp. A new study of his case by researchers at WashU Medicine aims to identify potential routes to preventing or treating the disease.

WashU Medicine and the Weizmann Institute of Science have launched a collaboration to support joint research projects focused on understanding the role of microbes and the immune and nervous systems in human health and disease.

The first participants have been enrolled in an international clinical trial, led by WashU Medicine, aimed at preventing Alzheimer’s disease in young adults at high risk of the disease.

Graham A. Colditz, MD, DrPH, the Niess-Gain Professor of Surgery and director of the Public Health Sciences Division in the Department of Surgery at WashU Medicine, has been awarded the Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction in Population Science.

The Office of Resource Management invites WashU faculty and staff to learn about WashU’s partnership with Southwest Airlines and other preferred travel partners. The webinar will take place at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 3.

The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded Aimilia Gastounioti, an assistant professor at WashU Medicine, a five-year $3 million grant to improve breast cancer risk assessments for Black women.

Researchers at WashU Medicine have received two grants totaling more than $10 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the human body’s resident viruses, those not known to be associated with disease.

Sean McWilliams, a 29-year employee of Washington University in St. Louis, died at his home Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. He was 55. A celebration of life will be held March 7.