Author: Brittney Wheeler

Denise E. Wilfley, professor at the School of Medicine and in Arts & Sciences, received a five-year $2.6 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a training program in obesity and cardiovascular disease.

Ramsey Hachem, the Tracey C. Marshall – Dr. Elbert P. Trulock Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine, received a $2.2 million research grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Feng Sheng Hu, dean of Arts & Sciences, has bolstered the school’s administrative efforts by appointing several faculty members to new or expanded leadership roles.

Zhoufeng Chen, at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.5 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for neuroscience research.

Washington University employees can support those in need by donating to the United Way of Greater St. Louis. Those who donate online through Nov. 30 will have a chance to win St. Louis-themed prizes.

Naresha Saligrama, assistant professor of neurology at the School of Medicine, received a three-year $1.1 million grant from the Children’s Discovery Institute for pediatric onset multiple sclerosis research.

Washington University School of Medicine researchers, studying mice, have developed a method of stem cell transplantation that does not require radiation or chemotherapy. The study opens the door to safer stem cell transplantation.

Aristeidis Sotiras, assistant professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use machine learning techniques in Alzheimer’s research.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have found that the drug fluvoxamine has been shown, in a pair of studies conducted on two continents, to be an effective treatment for people sick with COVID-19.

James H. Buckley, professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, received a $700,292 award from the National Science Foundation to upgrade a ground-based telescope array for gamma-ray astronomy.