Medicine & Health

Wayne Yokoyama, MD, director of the Division of Physician-Scientists at the School of Medicine, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to support early-career physicians interested in pursuing research in infectious diseases and immunology.

Research in the labs of Nate Huebsch and Guy Genin at the McKelvey School of Engineering creates software to enable experiments for learning how electrical and mechanical heart functions relate. Their study is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Gaya Amarasinghe, the Alumni Endowed Professor of pathology and immunology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $16.8 million grant renewal from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for Ebola virus research.

Neuroscientist Steven Mennerick, the John P. Feighner Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at the School of Medicine, has been named director and associate dean of the Roy and Diana Vagelos Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences.

Thomas M. Maddox, MD, a professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, has been invited to become an active participant of the National Academy of Medicine’s Digital Health Action Collaborative Stakeholder Network.

Fewer than half of people worldwide who have already had one heart attack or stroke take daily aspirin to prevent a second one, according to a new study led by researchers at the School of Medicine. Increasing daily aspirin use in such patients could reduce cardiovascular deaths.

Siyuan Ding, an assistant professor of molecular microbiology at the School of Medicine, has received the 2023 Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Award from the American Society of Virology.

For people who have contracted the COVID-19 virus, pain and suffering may continue two years after infection, according to a new study from the School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care system.

Washington University School of Medicine’s Alpha Omega Alpha chapter has chosen 24 faculty members, alumni and house officers-in-training to be new members of the medical honor society.

Philip R.O. Payne, at the School of Medicine, has joined the steering committee of a National Academy of Medicine working group to draft a code of conduct for artificial intelligence in health, medical care and health research.