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Researchers at the School of Medicine are the first to identify a mutated gene that gives insight into kidney failure in human infants. More medical news

A program designed to promote multidisciplinary collaboration in clinical research has named its first group of scholars.

If some patients with heart disease don’t take their doctor’s advice to quit smoking, they are probably going to get “shocking” reminders. A study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that heart patients who had implanted defibrillators and also smoked were seven times more likely to have the devices jolt their hearts back into normal rhythm than nonsmokers with the devices.

Washington University in St. Louis will award honorary degrees to five prominent people, including a 2004 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and a pioneering scholar of African and African-American literature, during the university’s 145th Commencement ceremony May 19. During the ceremony, which begins at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle, the university will also bestow academic degrees on more than 2,300 students.

“When colleagues have professed great satisfaction about being a part of this community, it validates what we are doing,” Chancellor Wrighton said.

Some lung cancer patients — those with conditions that raise the potential for surgical complications — can be at a high risk from a lobectomy. More medical news

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Track and field sweeps UAA championships For the second straight season, the men’s and women’s track and field teams swept the University Athletic Association Outdoor Championships. The Bears secured both outdoor titles April 23 in Cleveland, totaling 13 individual crowns on the day. The Bears women tallied seven individual titles in the final day of […]

She’s a research associate professor in earth and planetary sciences; it is a “rotator” position at the NSF, meaning she retains her WUSTL appointment.

Jorge Marcos received the 2006-07 full-tuition scholarship, Zachary Wegmann won the partial, and the Leadership Award was presented to Imani Anwisye.