Grants bolster research on myelodysplastic syndromes
Two WashU Medicine researchers have received three-year, $750,000 awards from the Edward P. Evans Foundation to advance the study of certain types of blood cancer.
mRNA vaccines follow unconventional immune path to destroy tumors
WashU Medicine researchers have found in mice that two types of immune cells are involved in triggering strong cancer-killing T-cell responses with mRNA vaccines, offering new insights into designing cancer vaccines.
Grant furthers novel therapeutic approach to glioblastoma
Milan G. Chheda, MD, at WashU Medicine and a brain tumor specialist at Siteman Cancer Center, based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine, has received a nearly $1.5 million grant from the Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation.
Innovative CAR-T cell therapy receives FDA Breakthrough Therapy designation
Developed by WashU Medicine researchers and licensed to WashU startup Wugen, the immunotherapy is designed to treat rare and aggressive types of blood cancer.
Method spots early signs of infection after breast cancer reconstruction
A new tool developed by WashU Medicine researchers could allow for preemptive treatment of implant-related infections that improves outcomes and reduces patients’ emotional and financial burden.
Imaging technique can reduce benign breast biopsies by 25%
Ultrasound-guided diffuse optical tomography reduces breast biopsies by 25% in a new study from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis.
Inflammatory immune cells predict survival, relapse in multiple myeloma
Researchers at WashU Medicine and their collaborators have created an immune cell atlas of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. The new resource could improve prognosis and guide development of new immunotherapies.
A scientist’s ‘a-ha moment’
Alex Quillin, PhD ’25, talks about the day she looked through the microscope and realized what she and her fellow students discovered.
Nasal drops fight brain tumors noninvasively
Researchers at WashU Medicine have developed a nano-sized medicine delivered through the nose that boosts the anti-cancer immune response and successfully eliminates deadly brain tumors in mice.
Understanding intrinsically disordered protein regions and their roles in cancer
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed an algorithm to decode the language of intrinsically disordered regions of proteins and their roles in human cancers.
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