Newsroom Stories

Carlene Nicholson Juncker, instructor in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences from 1973-1981 and a 1959 alumna, died of cancer Sunday, May 13, 2007.

Albert Roos, M.D., professor emeritus of anesthesiology and of cell biology and physiology, died Tuesday, June 5, 2007. He was 92.

University earth and planetary scientists are paving the way for a smooth Mars landing for the Phoenix mission — scheduled to launch in August — by making sure the set-down literally is not a rocky one.

Jeanette Lyles Caliguri, a licensed practical nurse at the School of Medicine from 1971-73, died Monday, June 18, 2007, at Des Peres Hospital. She was 75.

School of Medicine staff were honored for their years of service at two June 4 ceremonies.

StanleySamuel Stanley, vice chancellor of research, has been named an Ambassador in Research!America’s Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research. Stanley is now one of 50 of the nation’s foremost global health experts who have joined forces to increase awareness about the critical need for greater U.S. public and private investment in research to improve global health.

Listed below are this month’s featured news stories. • New treatment for obesity? (week of July 4) • Heading off vaccine side-effects (week of July 11) • Brain’s chain-of-command (week of July 18) • Repairing ‘sports hernias’ (week of July 25)

Lung transplants have been performed successfully for more than 20 years in humans but never before in mice – until now. Surgeons at the School of Medicine have developed the first mouse model of lung transplantation, and they’re hoping it will help explain why the success of the procedure in humans lags far behind other solid organ transplants.

Researchers at the School of Medicine have found that a protein absorbs lipids in the upper part of the intestine, and they believe its key role in this process may provide a novel approach for obesity treatment in the future. Principal investigator Nada Abumrad first identified the protein, CD36, that facilitates the uptake of fatty acids.

YokoyamaWayne M. Yokoyama, M.D., is the new director of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at the School of Medicine. The appointment went into effect July 1. Students in the program graduate with combined medical and doctoral degrees. The MSTP at Washington University is the largest M.D.-Ph.D. program in the nation with 183 students.