Medicine & Health

The St. Louis Children’s Hospital and WashU Medicine Heart Center has become one of only eight programs in the nation to perform a rare, lifesaving procedure in which one donor’s organ is transplanted into a patient, who then becomes a donor for another patient.

Using advanced biophysical and imaging techniques, Meredith Jackrel and her team at Washington University in St. Louis have isolated the protein Matrin-3 to better understand its role in neurodegenerative diseases.

Several biology and medical researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have earned prestigious awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Researcher Deanna Barch, a professor at WashU, has received a lifetime achievement award from the Association for Psychological Science.

Quitting smoking significantly increases survival time in cancer patients, particularly those with advanced-stage cancer, according to a study of an innovative smoking cessation program at WashU Medicine and Siteman Cancer Center.

Three WashU investigators have been recognized with prestigious awards through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, which supports unconventional approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.

New research from WashU Medicine identified a key enzyme that enables rotavirus to infect cells. Disabling this enzyme prevented infection, suggesting new treatments against rotavirus and other pathogens that rely on similar mechanisms.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have a developed a way to monitor mouse embryo development and predict successful blastocyst formation. The results of the study could help improve success rates of in vitro fertilization.

WashU’s Prevention Research Center delivered its Evidence-Based Public Health training in Puerto Rico, strengthening local health workforce capacity to tackle chronic disease and limited resources.

WashU Medicine researchers led by Erik Musiek, MD, PhD, discovered in mice that inhibition of a protein that controls the daily cycling of metabolism and inflammation decreases neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease.