Medicine & Health

Researchers at Washington University study the upside to staying social online.

Two new grants support efforts at WashU Medicine to design vaccines, drugs for understudied virus families.

As a health-care executive, alumna KMarie King, MD, follows a set of principles: ‘Be kind, have integrity and the patient comes first.’

WashU Medicine surgeons led a long-term study that showed patients who received a hip resurfacing procedure maintained a higher level of athletic activity years after their surgery than those who received a total hip replacement.

Researchers at WashU Medicine described, in mice, a brain pathway that connects the loss of motivation characteristic of advanced cancer to cancer-related inflammation and identified opportunities to block this pathway and restore motivation.

WashU Medicine’s Eric C. Leuthardt, MD, and Robi Mitra, PhD, have been named fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering will investigate the effect of estrogen on thoracic aortic aneurysm development and develop patient-specific biomarkers to manage the disease.

Megan Tierney Baldridge, MD, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at WashU Medicine, received a $100,000 grant to explore the interactions between the viruses that infect bacteria, known as bacteriophages, and human intestinal epithelial cells.

Researchers at Washington University have received a $4 million grant to study specialized cells that could help treat kidney disease.

Researchers at WashU Medicine found that a small population of immune cells in the mouse intestine prevents allergic responses to food, suggesting that targeting such cells therapeutically could potentially lead to a new treatment for allergies.