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Rui Zhang, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the  School of Medicine, received a five-year grant award totaling $1,897,009 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Structural and functional studies of axonemal microtubule inner proteins (MIPs.)”

Washington University is seeking 2,000 university employees or students to volunteer for a study to evaluate the feasibility of large-scale, rapid COVID-19 saliva testing.

Ganesh M. Babulal, assistant professor of neurology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $3,984,843 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s National Institute On Aging for research titled “The Impact of Depression and Preclinical Alzheimer Disease on Driving Among Older Adults.” This study will investigate how depression, preclinical Alzheimer’s disease and antidepressant use […]

Lila Solnica-Krezel, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor and head of the Department of Developmental Biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been elected president of the International Zebrafish Society.

Question: When was the Danforth University Center formally dedicated?

The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black and Latinx communities in the United States has demonstrated that racial disparities persist in health care. In a recent editorial for Science, Adia Harvey Wingfield, professor of sociology in Arts & Sciences, said racial disparities persist despite the safeguards scientists have put into place to keep their work bias-free because […]

COVID-19 has upended daily life, including scientific research. However, the pandemic has not impacted men and women equally. While women scientists seem to be submitting fewer papers for publication, men are submitting more. In a recently published editorial for Science, Caitlyn Collins, assistant professor of sociology in Arts & Sciences, said gender equity in science has always been […]

There are steps Congress might take that would strike an appropriate balance between victim’s interests, the need to protect essential services acting reasonably, and federalism values. Instead, this bill gives businesses a free pass at the expense of COVID-19’s victims. If passed into law, the bill would make it anything but safe for the country to go back to work.

After a national search, noted radiologist Debbie Lee Bennett, MD, has been named chief of breast imaging for Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Design and architecture schools have been far slower to make commitments than they were to offer sweeping public statements. In this void, students are reclaiming the political, visionary legacy of design schools in years past.