Cohen to study gene expression
Barak A. Cohen, at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $1.28 million grant from the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study gene expression.
Kulkarni recognized for immune system research
Hrishikesh S. Kulkarni, MD, an assistant professor of medicine and of molecular microbiology at the School of Medicine, has received the Early Career Award from the International Complement Society. The complement system is an important component of immunity.
Semenkovich to study vascular diseases
Clay F. Semenkovich, MD, at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $1.53 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for vascular disease research.
Grossman, Henderson honored by international blood association
The Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies recently honored Brenda J. Grossman, MD, and Jeffrey P. Henderson, MD, noted researchers at Washington University School of Medicine, with a 2021 President’s Award for their work as part of the COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Project Group.
APS selects Bogdan as fellow
Ryan Bogdan, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences, has been named a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
Al-Aly named associate editor of nephrology journal
Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, has been named an associate editor of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Craver wins National Science Foundation grant
Carl F. Craver, a professor of philosophy and of philosophy-neuroscience-psychology in Arts & Sciences, has won a grant of $282,603 from the National Science Foundation for research on time and episodic memory.
Mondal wins NSF grants
Mathematician Debashis Mondal in Arts & Sciences received two grants from the National Science Foundation for research on high-dimensional data and on Markov random fields.
Parai wins CAREER grant to study geochemistry of the deep Earth
Rita Parai, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, will use a National Science Foundation CAREER award to leverage new techniques to measure heavy noble gases in ocean island basalts from the Azores archipelago.
Jansen receives NIH grant
Silvia Jansen at the School of Medicine received a five-year $1.65 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Regulation of membrane trafficking by coronins.”
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