Medicine & Health

People should be strategic about how and when they set new goals, according to positive psychology researcher Tim Bono at Washington University.

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

Kory Lavine, MD, PhD, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Cardiology at WashU Medicine, has received a $600,000 grant from the Additional Ventures Foundation — an organization that funds research into congenital heart disease — to study hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

Gregory Lanza, MD, PhD, the James R. Hornsby Family Professor in Biomedical Sciences at WashU Medicine, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in recognition of his application of nanotechnology to a broad variety of medical innovations.

Nusayba Bagegni, MD, an associate professor at WashU Medicine, has been awarded a 2024 Early Career Cancer Clinical Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

People with severe, treatment-resistant depression who received vagus nerve stimulation therapy showed improvement in depressive symptoms, quality of life and ability to complete everyday tasks, according to a national clinical trial led by researchers at WashU Medicine.

Researchers at WashU Medicine have received $7.5 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate a form of dementia caused by cerebral small vessel disease, the second-leading cause of dementia after Alzheimer’s.

WashU Medicine has received renewal of a prestigious National Cancer Institute grant. Led by Daniel Link, MD, it provides funding for translational research into new therapies for patients with blood cancers.

WashU senior Emma Lembke, 22, has earned a spot on Forbes’ “30 Under 30” social media list. Lembke co-founded  Log Off, an organization for and by teens who want to raise awareness about social media’s impact on mental health.

In recognition of a $50 million gift from Andrew and Barbara Taylor, the neurosurgery department at WashU Medicine has been named the Taylor Family Department of Neurosurgery.