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BoyerMartin Boyer has been named the Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery at the School of Medicine. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and Larry J. Shapiro, executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, announced the appointment.

Researchers at the School of Medicine have found a way to dress and undress Leishmania, a parasite that causes death and disfigurement in developing countries. Scientists showed that they could control the parasite’s ability to put on its carbohydrate coat, causing it to put on the whole coat, a lighter version or to forego the coat entirely.

SchaalPresident Obama has appointed Barbara A. Schaal, Ph.D., the Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and vice president of the National Academy of Sciences, to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

School of Medicine clinical faculty and staff recently collected more than 1,500 medical textbooks to be donated to the Lui Hospital in the war zone of southern Sudan. The Missouri Hospital Association made the request earlier this year, as the staff who work at Lui Hospital rely on outdated medical references, some dating back to […]

Mice lacking the L-Fabp gene (left) don’t become obese on a high-fat diet like normal mice.Obesity and gallstones often go hand in hand. But not in mice developed at the School of Medicine. Even when these mice eat high-fat diets, they don’t get fat, but they do develop gallstones. Researchers say the findings offer clues about genetic factors related to gallstones, and they believe better understanding of those factors may one day allow physicians to monitor people at risk and even, perhaps, to intervene before gallstones become a serious problem.

Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D., vice chancellor for research, has been named president of State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook effective July 1. In a press release issued by SUNY Stony Brook, Chancellor-Elect Nancy Zimpher, Ph.D., cited Stanley’s experience as an accomplished leader, administrator, educator, medical researcher and physician as well as his […]

A choreographer, bank president, investment banker and the president of the United States’ largest brewer were among the honorees at the Olin Business School’s 2009 Distinguished Alumni Awards April 22 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Clayton. More than 500 alumni, faculty and friends attended the ceremony, where winners of the second annual Olin Award and […]

At its spring meeting, the Board of Trustees received reports on the endowment, investments and budgets for the 2009-10 fiscal year. Reports also were delivered by the undergraduate and graduate student representatives. In his remarks to the board, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton reviewed a number of extraordinary accomplishments over the past few months, including a […]

The School of Law’s Center for Research on Innovation & Entrepreneurship has been renamed the Center on Law, Innovation & Economic Growth (CLIEG). Gerrit De Geest, J.D., Ph.D., professor of law, is the new co-director with founder Charles McManis, J.D., the Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law. “With four years of accumulated experience to […]

The new Master of Public Health program at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work is offering four, new full-tuition, merit-based scholarships to support students interested in improving community health locally, nationally and internationally.