Campus & Community

Farrokh Dehdashti, MD, the Drs. Barry A. and Marilyn J. Siegel Professor of Radiology at WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, has received the Radiological Society of North America’s 2025 Outstanding Researcher Award.

Eva Klinman, MD, PhD, an instructor in the Department of Neurology at WashU Medicine, has been named a 2025 STAT Wunderkind by STAT News for her exceptional contributions to understanding the mechanisms of brain aging and neurodegeneration.

Computer science researchers at Washington University in St. Louis were honored for a paper that has made a longstanding impact on the field of embedded software.

Pamela K. Woodard, MD, head of the Department of Radiology and director of Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at WashU Medicine, is among 100 new members elected this year to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in health and medicine.

Jason Jabbari, an assistant professor at the Brown School, has received a two-year $352,943 grant from Arnold Ventures to evaluate the impact of the Cristo Rey Network’s professional work-based learning model on social mobility and racial equity.

Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, director of Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine, has been active within the American College of Surgeons for many years, including serving as chair of the board from 2022-2023.

The College Writing Program in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis recently celebrated the 2025 winners and finalists of the James E. McLeod First-Year Writing Prize.

Several biology and medical researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have earned prestigious awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Lana Lin’s “The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam” has been longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for nonfiction. The book is published by Dorothy, an independent publishing project co-founded by WashU’s Danielle Dutton and Martin Riker.

Three WashU investigators have been recognized with prestigious awards through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, which supports unconventional approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.