Medicine & Health

Frederick Sweet, PhD, professor of reproductive biology in obstetrics and gynecology, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct research in Bosnia-Herzegovina during 2010-2011.

Three Washington University School of Medicine professors have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Susan Dutcher, Timothy Ley and Robert Schreiber.

A two-day event, hosted by DBBS and the Office of Post Graduate Affairs, brought 19 prospective postdoctoral research scholars to Washington University for a recruiting visit.

Each year, more than a million Americans visit the doctor for ankle pain from arthritis. Some of these patients now have another option for their aging joints — ankle replacement.  

Stuart A. Kornfeld, MD, the David C. and Betty Farrell Professor of Medicine, has received one of the highest awards in academic medicine, the 2010 George M. Kober Medal, from the Association of American Physicians. Kornfeld was presented the award on April 23 during the association’s annual meeting in Chicago.

Nerve cells in the body and brain react in opposite ways to the loss of a protein linked to a childhood tumor syndrome, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found. The finding could be important to efforts to preserve the vision of patients with neurofibromatosis 1, a genetic condition that increases risk of benign and malignant brain tumors.

Children with sickle cell disease who also have lower blood oxygen levels while both asleep and awake are likely to have heart abnormalities, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and other institutions have found.

A new Fetal Care Center has opened at Washington University Medical Center as the only comprehensive facility in the Midwest that offers advanced fetal diagnostics, surgery before and after birth and newborn medicine under one roof.

Alison Goate, PhD, has been named director of the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, a partnership between Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Hope Happens, a nonprofit foundation that supports research into neurodegenerative disorders.

Older adults with evidence of amyloid in the brain but no clinical symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease have structures in the brain that don’t communicate readily with each other, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The findings may be yet another indicator that Alzheimer’s damage to the brain begins to occur long before there are clinical symptoms of the disease.