Cells in fruit fly gut can prompt tumor growth
Tumor growth can start from stem cells in the gut, say School of Medicine researchers studying fruit flies.
Gene regulates immune cells’ ability to harm the body
A recently identified gene allows immune cells to start the self-destructive processes thought to underlie multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Murray named chief of pediatric anesthesiology
David J. Murray, M.D., has been appointed as chief of the Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology.
Nominees for Goldstein Leadership Awards sought
Nominations of School of Medicine faculty for the 2009 Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Awards in Medical Student Education are due Oct. 12.
Genes and beans
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.
GrooveLily returns to Edison with ‘Beauty’ of a show
The acclaimed indie troubadours GrooveLily return to St. Louis for a pair of performances of “Sleeping Beauty Wakes” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 2 and 3, as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS Series.
Ducornet to speak for Reading Series
Author Rikki Ducornet, the Visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in The Writing Program in Arts & Science, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1. In addition, she will lead a talk on the craft of fiction at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8. Ducornet, the is the author of seven novels, including The Fan Maker’s Inquisition (2004) — a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year—and The Jade Cabinet (1993), a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award.
Robins, preeminent psychiatry researcher, 87
Lee Nelken Robins, Ph.D., professor emeritus of social science in psychiatry at the School of Medicine, died at her home Sept. 25, 2009, following a long battle against cancer. She was 87.
‘Chance’ concert Oct. 7
Since the early 20th century, avant-garde writers, artists and composers have championed the creative possibilities of the arbitrary and the accidental. Next week, the Department of Music and the Dance Program in the Performing Arts Department (PAD), both in Arts & Sciences, and the Mil-dred Lane Kemper Art Museum will host a concert exploring the […]
Applications available for Bear Cub Fund grants
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.
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