8.18.21
Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.
EPA funds Moon’s biotech, containment research
The EPA visited Washington University to award $744,262 to Tae Seok Moon, associate professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, for cutting-edge biotechnology research.
Loeb Teaching Fellow announced
Noor Riaz, MD, a pediatric hospitalist, has been named the 2021-23 Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Teaching Fellow at the School of Medicine.
Postdoc wins training grant
Joe Rowles, a postdoctoral research associate working with Gary Patti in chemistry in Arts & Sciences, won a Molecular Oncology Training Grant to support his participation in the Siteman Cancer Center’s Cancer Biology Pathway Program.
Prabhu named cardiovascular division director
Sumanth D. Prabhu, MD, an internationally recognized expert in how immunity and inflammation contribute to heart failure, has been named director of the Cardiovascular Division in the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine.
Research to explore how genes, other factors affect cardiometabolic disease risk
With an $8.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers at Washington University School of Medicine will study how an individual’s risks of cardiometabolic diseases are influenced by the interaction of specific genes with demographic and lifestyle factors.
Staudt to conclude deanship Oct. 1
Nancy Staudt, dean of the School of Law and the Howard & Caroline Cayne Distinguished Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, will conclude her deanship and leave the university Oct. 1.
Pakrasi to work on positive farming effort
Himadri Pakrasi, the George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor in biology in Arts & Sciences, received a $75,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to support greenhouse gas reduction initiatives.
Scialog awards $50,000 grant to Kamilov to merge imaging technologies
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging has awarded Ulugbek Kamilov $50,000 for research into the merging of two imaging technologies.
Postdoctoral researchers receive Keck fellowships
This year’s W.M. Keck Fellowships in Molecular Medicine have been awarded to three postdoctoral researchers at Washington University. The fellowships are funded with a gift from the W.M. Keck Foundation.
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