Medicine & Health

Nandini Raghuraman, MD, and Antonina Frolova, MD, PhD, at WashU Medicine, have received a $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study contractions during labor induction. 

WashU Medicine researchers have discovered a gut bacterial enzyme with previously unknown metabolic capabilities that is associated with the growth benefits of a food therapy for malnourished children.

A team from WashU Medicine and Northwestern has developed an implantable device that, in animal studies, can successfully detect an opioid overdose and administer a lifesaving drug.

A new study from WashU Medicine researchers finds that a type of immunotherapy — similar to one approved by the FDA to treat inflammatory conditions — may be an effective treatment strategy for heart failure.

Benjamin Garcia, the Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished Professor and head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at WashU Medicine, has been named an American Chemical Society fellow, one of 37 in this year’s class of fellows.

Linying Zhang, an assistant professor of biostatistics at WashU Medicine, received the American Medical Informatics Association 2024 Edward H. Shortliffe Doctoral Dissertation Award honorable mention.

Thomas Nickolas, MD, a respected clinical nephrologist and researcher focused on kidney disease and bone health, has been named the next director of the Division of Bone and Mineral Diseases in the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

After a pandemic pause, WashU undergrads were back at Hôpital Pasteur on the French Riviera over the summer, learning why the French live healthier and longer than anyone else in the industrialized world.

A researcher in the McKelvey School of Engineering will study the effects of physical therapy and anti-inflammatory treatments on an elbow injury with a $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

John Cooper, MD, PhD, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolfe Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been elected a fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology.