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The University’s Bear Cub Fund is soliciting grant applications from University researchers who want to move inventions from their laboratories toward commercialization. The fund supports innovative translational research not normally backed by federal grants. Any WUSTL faculty member, postdoctoral fellow, graduate student or employee may apply.

The age at which a person takes a first drink may influence genes linked to alcoholism, making the youngest drinkers the most susceptible to severe problems.

School of Medicine researchers have launched an online registry that aims to help children with a severe type of epilepsy that strikes in infancy.

Tumor growth can start from stem cells in the gut, say School of Medicine researchers studying fruit flies.

A recently identified gene allows immune cells to start the self-destructive processes thought to underlie multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.

David J. Murray, M.D., has been appointed as chief of the Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology.

Nominations of School of Medicine faculty for the 2009 Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Awards in Medical Student Education are due Oct. 12.

Photo by Robert BostonCentral Visual and Performing Arts High School students participated in an exercise in natural selection during a visit to the medical school Sept. 14.

“The State of the LGBT Movement,” a presentation by Matthew Coles, will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday, September 30, in the Anheuser-Busch School of Law Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom. It is free and open to the public.

Cancer survivor Kathy Ferrara and daughter Natalie continue their dialogue after participating in StoryCorps, a national oral history and research project.Cancer is a difficult diagnosis to acknowledge — especially what a parent with can-cer must explain. A StoryCorps project captures the emotional stories of survivors and may help others to say what must be said.