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Two grants totaling $30 million a year for three years support efforts to design vaccines and drugs for understudied virus families. WashU Medicine scientists are leading the efforts.

Peter Boumgarden, director of Olin Business School’s Koch Family Center for Family Enterprise, discusses Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan to expand the small business tax credit and other ways in which the government can support existing small businesses.

James Dwyer has been named vice chancellor for university business services at WashU, announced Nichol Luoma, executive vice chancellor for administration. He previously worked at Arizona State University.

The National Science Foundation recently awarded WashU a prestigious five-year ADVANCE-Institutional Transformation grant.

Eric J. Huang, MD, PhD, a renowned physician-scientist specializing in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases, has been named the Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and head of the Department of Pathology & Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

WashU students, faculty and staff  are invited to break out their U-Passes Sept. 20 to compete in the annual College Transit Challenge, an annual celebration of public transportation sponsored by Citizens for Modern Transit. 

Siteman Cancer Center, based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, soon will open a newly constructed nine-story, 657,250-square-foot building on the Washington University Medical Campus. The state-of-the-art building will be dedicated exclusively to outpatient cancer care and will welcome its first patients Sept. 30.

Lindley B. Wall, MD, has been installed as the Jacqueline N. Baker and W. Randolph Baker Professor at WashU Medicine. Wall is a national leader in hand and upper-extremity surgeries for pediatric patients.

As digital health tools gain popularity with advanced technology, Maura Kepper, a Brown School assistant professor, stresses the urgent need for equitable designs to reach marginalized populations.

Washington University in St. Louis faculty experts are available to discuss a variety of topics related to the election, politics and national and local issues.