Personalized brain modeling of anesthetic effects to predict antidepressant response
Neuroscientists, clinicians and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis seek to develop personalized medicine strategies for refractory depression that would tailor drug dosage based on a patient’s age, genetics, health conditions, brain dynamics and neural circuits.
Kim and Tim Eberlein receive Harris Award
Kim and Tim Eberlein, MD, were recently honored with the 2025 Jane and Whitney Harris St. Louis Community Service Award. The honor recognizes couples who contribute to the betterment of the greater St. Louis community.
Career Catalysts: St. Louis Fellows cultivate new talents, help partners meet goals
Career Catalysts, a series about WashU interns, by WashU interns, profiles pre-law student Winston Mattson, a Gephardt Institute St. Louis Fellow and an intern at Seed St. Louis.
Novel technologies underway to help those with spinal cord injuries move
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis plans to investigate the neural mechanisms behind various controls of transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation in generating different leg movements with a five-year, nearly $3 million grant the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Daydreaming can lead to epiphanies, greater career purpose, WashU research finds
Recent research from Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis indicates that people can increase their potential for experiencing work-related epiphanies by engaging in a playful type of mind wandering known as “problem-solving daydreaming.”
StudLife Games go big time
If you happened to be in New York City last weekend, perhaps you saw a Times Square billboard promoting a very WashU pastime: Student Life Games. There, smiling from the 55-by-31-foot digital display, were crossword creators and founders of the newspaper’s games page, recent graduate Alex Nickel and sophomore Rena Cohen.
Hotchner Festival highlights WashU playwrights
The Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present staged readings of four new student plays as part of the 2025 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival.
Ride to win: WashU invited to compete in College Transit Challenge
WashU students, faculty, staff and alumni are invited to break out their U-Passes on Thursday, Oct. 2, to compete in the annual College Transit Challenge, an annual celebration of public transportation sponsored by Citizens for Modern Transit.
$5 million funds innovation of more-potent opioid overdose antidote
WashU Medicine researchers received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that will help speed development of an enhanced version of naloxone, known by the brand name Narcan.
Tracking deadly and unpredictable postpartum hemorrhage
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are developing a wearable device that aims to track blood loss in pregnant women during delivery, with support from a $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The device aids in early warning signs for postpartum hemorrhage, a birth complication that is the leading cause of maternal death worldwide.
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