Campus & Community

Denise E. Wilfley, professor at the School of Medicine and in Arts & Sciences, received a five-year $2.6 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a training program in obesity and cardiovascular disease.

Ramsey Hachem, the Tracey C. Marshall – Dr. Elbert P. Trulock Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine, received a $2.2 million research grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Zhoufeng Chen, at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.5 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for neuroscience research.

Naresha Saligrama, assistant professor of neurology at the School of Medicine, received a three-year $1.1 million grant from the Children’s Discovery Institute for pediatric onset multiple sclerosis research.

Aristeidis Sotiras, assistant professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use machine learning techniques in Alzheimer’s research.

Ismael Seáñez, assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has been selected as a K12 scholar in a program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

James H. Buckley, professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, received a $700,292 award from the National Science Foundation to upgrade a ground-based telescope array for gamma-ray astronomy.

Deborah J. Lenschow, MD, PhD, professor at Washington University School of Medicine, has been named an Innovation Fund Investigator by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Brandie Jefferson, senior news director for engineering and brain sciences in University Marketing & Communications, was one of three presenters on a recent panel at ScienceWriters2021, a joint meeting of the National Association of Science Writers and the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.

Abram Van Engen, professor of English in Arts & Sciences, has won the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize for “City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism.”