Campus & Community

Adetunji T. Toriola, MD, PhD, a William H. Danforth Washington University Physician-Scientist Scholar, has received the 2022 Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research from the American Association for Cancer Research.

Ilaria Patania, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences, received a $25,000 research grant from The Leakey Foundation.

Daniel Harawa, an associate professor of law and director of the School of Law’s Appellate Clinic, has been selected to receive the 2023 Derrick A. Bell Jr. Award, given by the Association of American Law Schools’ Minority Law Teacher’s Section.

Yixin Chen, a professor of computer science and engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has been named an IEEE Fellow in the Class of 2023.

Thorold Theunissen, at the School of Medicine, has been named to an editorial board of early-career scientists for the journal Stem Cell Reports.

Cindy Brantmeier, a professor of applied linguistics and of global studies in Arts & Sciences, shared her research, which examined the challenges of functional health literacy for language-diverse patients across the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Washington University is now a part of the Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Diseases Consortium, and received a subcontract award of up to $50,000 from Seattle Children’s Research Institute in support of a course on protein bioinformatics.

Richard D. Vierstra, the George and Charmaine Mallinckrodt Professor of Biology, received a four-year $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue his project titled “Phytochromes: Structural Perspectives on Photoactivation and Signaling.”

The National Academy of Inventors has elected two Washington University faculty members to its 2022 cohort of fellows: Guy Genin, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, and Farshid Guilak, at the School of Medicine.

Two Brown School students, Jilly dos Santos and Lauren Chacón, have been selected for the Council of Social Work Education’s prestigious Minority Fellowship Program.