Robertson to study amino acid transporters
Janice Robertson, of the School of Medicine, received a two-year $155,500 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Moron-Concepcion named Mallinckrodt Professor of Anesthesiology
Jose Moron-Concepcion, a professor of anesthesiology, of neuroscience and of psychiatry, was installed recently as the Henry Elliot Mallinckrodt Professor of Anesthesiology at the School of Medicine.
Key Medicare payment model fails to improve mental health
A widespread Medicare program that aims to improve health care and lower costs by providing financial incentives to doctors and hospitals resulted in no improvements in mental health care, according to a study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and the Yale School of Public Health.
Fagan receives lifetime achievement award from Alzheimer’s Association
Anne Fagan, an internationally recognized expert on fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease and a professor of neurology at the School of Medicine, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Khalid Iqbal Lifetime Achievement Award by the Alzheimer’s Association.
Epigenome’s role in cancer revealed in new study
Scientists at the School of Medicine have analyzed the epigenomes of tumor cells across 11 cancer types and revealed important roles for this regulatory system of the genome in the way cancer forms, grows and spreads.
Student addresses Sierra Leone HIV epidemic in Lancet
Samuel Kizito, a PhD student in public health sciences at the Brown School, co-authored a correspondence published in The Lancet addressing the HIV epidemic among adolescents in Sierra Leone.
Wearable tech for contact tracing developed
An interdisciplinary team of WashU researchers developed CATCH, a potentially powerful automated tool for mitigating the spread of infectious diseases among front-line health-care workers.
Washington University partners on $3.8 million CDC grant
Washington University is partnering with the St. Louis Integrated Health Network on a five-year $3.8 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The funding aims to help improve health, prevent chronic diseases and reduce health disparities.
Mapping the cell’s membrane-less compartments
Washington University and St. Jude research groups have uncovered the rules for organization of cellular condensates implicated in ALS.
WashU team to study virus transmission, human-wildlife interaction
Red colobus monkeys are the most threatened group of African monkeys. With a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a Washington University team will model viral transmission dynamics among red colobus monkeys and their human neighbors near Kibale National Park, Uganda.
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