Call your pop-pop: Unlocking conversations between generations
Grandparents are engaging with their grandchildren far more than previous generations, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found. They surveyed grandparents to understand the quality and quantity of their conversations with grandchildren.
Garcia receives American Chemical Society award
Benjamin Garcia, the Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished Professor and head of the WashU Medicine Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, has received the American Chemical Society’s 2025 Saint Louis Section Award.
Silva, Yang named fellows of National Academy of Inventors
The National Academy of Inventors has elected two Washington University in St. Louis faculty members to its 2025 cohort of fellows: Jennifer N. Silva, MD, and Lan Yang.
A tale of three cities: Book explores gentrification in global context
A new book by Carol Camp Yeakey, the Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, examines the causes, impact and solutions to gentrification in cities around the world.
Accelerating real-world impact in public health
A gift from Ann and Tony Ryan launches a School of Public Health initiative tackling global health challenges — from maternal well-being and mental health to chronic disease and climate resilience.
Psychedelics disrupt normal link between brain’s neuronal activity and blood flow
WashU Medicine researchers show that psychedelic compounds such as psilocybin appear to distort the link between blood flow and brain-cell functioning, which scientists use to track brain activity.
$5 million for brain development and Alzheimer’s degeneration study
Researchers at WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology have received a $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how patterns of brain aging and degeneration mirror early-life experiences.
T cells found in tonsils differ in key ways from those in blood
Naresha Saligrama, of WashU Medicine, led a multi-institution team that uncovered important differences between human T cells that live in specific tissues and T cells found in the blood, with major implications for future research and diagnostics.
A scientist’s ‘a-ha moment’
Alex Quillin, PhD ’25, talks about the day she looked through the microscope and realized what she and her fellow students discovered.
$3.2 million grant funds research on computational AI in fistulizing Crohn’s disease
With a joint award from the Helmsley Charitable Trust, WashU Medicine and Emory University researchers will develop artificial intelligence software tools to improve diagnosis and treatment of a common complication of Crohn’s disease.
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