Student wins Schneiderman Fellowship
Eric Conners, a graduate student in in biology in Arts & Sciences, received a 2021-22 Howard A. Schneiderman Fellowship.
Distilling 70 years’ worth of data
Research from the lab of Jonathan Silva at the McKelvey School of Engineering leveraged computational models to analyze 70 years of arrhythmia-related data.
Sam Fox School, AIA St. Louis announce ‘Disruption,’ 2021 Steedman Fellowship
The Sam Fox School’s James Harrison Steedman Fellowship in Architecture, a biennial research competition, invites early-career architects from around the world to explore how architecture can help to address today’s most pressing global challenges.
NIH awards nearly $2M to Huebsch for study
The McKelvey School of Engineering’s Nathaniel Huebsch will use a nearly $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the most common cause of sudden death in young people.
Oxygen-delivering hydrogel accelerates diabetic wound healing
A new, drug-free technology developed in the lab of Jianjun Guan at the McKelvey School of Engineering helps speed up the healing process of diabetic wounds.
‘Unprecedented opportunity’ to understand neurovascular recovery after stroke
A team from the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine will use a $3.12 million grant to improve brain imaging to better understand stroke recovery.
Synthetic biology enables microbes to build synthetic muscle
The lab of Fuzhong Zhang has borrowed from synthetic chemistry to develop a platform enabling bacteria to build a synthetic muscle fiber.
Neurons in visual cortex of the brain ‘drift’ over time
New research from physicists in Arts & Sciences reveals that neurons in the visual cortex — the part of the brain that processes visual stimuli — respond differently to the same kind of stimulus over time.
Researcher wins grant for cell division work
Sarah Anderson, a postdoctoral research associate in Petra Levin’s biology lab in Arts & Sciences, won a three-year $200,946 award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences’ Biomedical Research and Research Training Program for a project titled “Modulation of Bacterial Cell Division by (p)ppGpp.”
Wang receives award to further develop pregnancy imaging system
Yong Wang, associate professor at the School of Medicine and the McKelvey School of Engineering, has received a 2021 Next Gen Pregnancy research grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for development of noninvasive imaging of uterine contractions.
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