Medicine & Health

Researchers at WashU Medicine have received two grants totaling more than $10 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the human body’s resident viruses, those not known to be associated with disease.

Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg, MD, PhD, at WashU Medicine, brings empathy and compassion to families with children in critical care. She also is working on strategies to prevent staph infections in infants.

WashU Medicine researchers have received two large grants from the NIH renewing funding for the Human Pangenome Reference Sequencing Project.

Cory Berkland has been named the inaugural Mark and Becky Ruhmann Levin Professor in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University.

People prescribed the popular GLP-1 weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro may experience benefits such as increased cognitive and behavioral health, according to scientists at WashU Medicine and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System. But users may also face increased risks for pancreatitis and kidney conditions, among other illnesses.

Researchers at WashU Medicine have described the neurodegeneration that occurs in the nervous system of the bowel in Batten disease, a rare and fatal genetic condition.

Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering have turned an age-old assumption about cell force on its head. Their work, published in PLOS Computational Biology, has implications for how cancer spreads and wounds heal.

The Internal Medicine Residency Program at WashU Medicine has received the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 2025 Barbara Ross-Lee, DO Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award.

Mice infected with the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) fared better when treated with an experimental compound that modulates immune responses, according to a study led by Christina Stallings, a professor of molecular microbiology at WashU Medicine.

WashU Medicine researchers have been awarded nearly $5 million to better understand what causes pain symptoms to persist in some patients recovering from surgery.