Author: Kelly Wiese Niemeyer

Michael J. Greenberg, at WashU Medicine, has received two grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate the complex roles of troponin — a critical protein in the heart — in various forms of heart failure.

As WashU’s vice chancellor for innovation and commercialization, Doug Frantz helps speed scientific discoveries into real-world therapies and devices. He works to develop strategic partnerships with industry and enhance WashU’s commercialization efforts.

Padma Gulur, MD, a physician-scientist and nationally recognized leader in pain management, has been named the head of the Department of Anesthesiology and the inaugural Alex S. Evers MD Distinguished Professor in Anesthesiology at WashU Medicine. Her appointment begins Aug. 1.

It is again time to nominate deserving staff members for WashU’s Distinguished Honor Awards. The nomination deadline is March 20.

A brain network first identified by WashU Medicine researchers, called SCAN, is shown in a new study to be the neurological basis for Parkinson’s disease. Patients receiving treatments targeted to this brain region, rather than to surrounding areas, experienced greater improvements in symptoms.

The program in Microbial, Immunologic and Neurologic Disorders is accepting joint proposals from researchers at WashU Medicine and the Weizmann Institute of Science to execute collaborative research projects. Submissions are due March 31.

Stephanie Mazzucca-Ragan, an assistant professor at the WashU School of Public Health, is working to shape young people’s lives by developing ways to promote healthy eating and physical activity. Those behaviors can pay dividends from better learning to preventing chronic disease down the road.

WashU faculty and students are invited to apply for the Penelope Biggs Travel Award for travel involving the study of Greco-Roman antiquity. Applications are due Feb. 15.

Recent graduates, and undergraduate students who are close to graduating, can apply to be part of a two-year post-baccalaureate neuroscience program at WashU. Applications are due by March 9.

Donald “Don” E. Clayton, a former associate vice chancellor of Medical Public Affairs at WashU Medicine, died Jan. 8 after a respiratory illness. He was 71.