Campus & Community

Adam T. Eggebrecht at the School of Medicine received a two-year $452,702 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to research brain function in children with autism.

Jennifer Wang, an assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, won a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for microtubule formation research.

Brown School social work PhD student Woodjerry Louis has been selected to participate in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s prestigious Health Policy Research Scholars program. Louis is the only Missouri student in the cohort of 40 students from across the country.

Faculty members Song Hu and Yong Wang are teaming up to find quantitative biomarkers for clinical pain management.

Song Hu, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will use photoacoustic microscopy to study abnormal oxygen metabolism in injured neonatal brains thanks to a five-year $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Patrícia M. Ribeiro Pereira, an assistant professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, received the 2022 Young Investigator Award from the Cancer Research Foundation.

Carlos Cruchaga, at the School of Medicine, has received a 2022 Zenith Fellow Award from the Alzheimer’s Association. The annual award is given to scientists who have made significant contributions to Alzheimer’s disease research and are likely to continue to do so.

Washington University School of Medicine faculty members Opeolu M. Adeoye, MD, Farshid Guilak, PhD, David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD, and Jonathan Kipnis, PhD, have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, a part of the National Academy of Sciences. Membership is considered one of the highest honors in the health and medicine fields.

The Fourth Annual Missouri Egyptological Symposium (#MOEgypt4) will take place Oct. 14-15 on the Danforth Campus. Nicola Aravecchia, assistant professor of classics and of art history and archaeology, both in Arts & Sciences, is one of the organizers of the event.

HomeGrown STL, a Brown School program aimed at improving community-level capacity to reduce inequality in Black adolescents’ healthy transition to adulthood, has won an inaugural Social Justice Innovation Award from financial firm Morgan Stanley and the nonprofit Centri Tech Foundation.