Medicine & Health

A clinical trial led by School of Medicine researchers has shown that a T cell immunotherapy — in which the patients’ own T cells are genetically modified to attack and kill cancer cells — is effective in treating some patients with rare cancers of the body’s soft tissues. The study focused on the rare cancers synovial sarcoma and myxoid round cell liposarcoma.

The Division of Physician-Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has announced its fifth class of Dean’s Scholars.

Seven Washington University in St. Louis faculty members have been named fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, joining 23 existing fellows at Washington University.

A team of Washington University researchers has received an award of up to $31 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to develop a single-injection treatment for osteoarthritis that promotes tissue regeneration and restores joints.

A survey of nearly 1,000 people found Arts & Sciences’ course “The Pandemic: Science & Society” led to more accurate risk perception and stronger protective behaviors.

The National Science Foundation has given a CAREER award to Nathaniel Huebsch, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.

John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD, the Virginia E. and Sam J. Golman Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine, delivered the E. Donnall Thomas Lecture in San Antonio at the Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Meetings of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy and the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research.

Two innovative pilot projects led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have received funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to address critical challenges in the fields of neurodegeneration and neuroscience.

Corporate investors “buy low and rent high” to populations who can least afford it. A two-year national study, led by Carol Camp Yeakey in Arts & Sciences, will examine the impact that corporate investors have on renters, especially marginalized communities of color, in St. Louis, Cincinnati and Atlanta.

A sense of well-being can have a profound impact on health, especially for the aging brain. Higher levels of well-being have been robustly associated with a lower risk for future dementia, according to WashU psychology researchers who contributed to this year’s World Happiness Report.