Medicine & Health

Research from the lab of Renee J. Thompson in Arts & Sciences shows social media use associated with mixed outcomes when it comes to well-being during the pandemic.

Researchers at Washington University are receiving one of 19 grant awards that will support data science research and training activities in Africa. The researchers will focus on developing new training programs in health data science in Rwanda.

People taking TNF inhibitors, a kind of immunosuppressive drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune conditions, produced a weaker and shorter-lived antibody response after two doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine.

In a seemingly counterintuitive finding, young adults diagnosed with central nervous system tumors might have better survival rates the farther they live from care, finds a new Brown School study.

Daniel Kreisel, surgical director of lung transplantation at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, is a principal investigator in a clinical trial funded with a $22 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The trial aims to reduce lung transplant rejection.

Research from the lab of Deanna Barch shows that youth who indicate they have persistent, distressing psychotic-like episodes show impairment in a variety of areas.

The Brown School, the Institute for Public Health’s Center for Dissemination and Implementation and the School of Medicine’s Infectious Disease Division have launched the Infectious Disease Dissemination and Implementation Science (IDDI) Initiative.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Washington University is developing a machine-learning-based early warning system to predict cancer patients’ deterioration and improve patient outcomes.

The lab of Fuzhong Zhang at the McKelvey School of Engineering has used synthetic biology to bring together the best of spider silk and mussel foot protein in a biocompatible adhesive.

A team of researchers led by Hong Chen has developed a noninvasive diagnostic method that may one day replace tissue biopsies with a simple blood test.