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Kenneth S. Polonsky, MD, the Adolphus Busch Professor and head of the Department of Medicine, has been named dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine and executive vice president for medical affairs at the University of Chicago.

Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital plan to build a new Siteman Cancer Center in south St. Louis County, serving the Interstate 55 corridor and southern Illinois.

Missouri is getting national attention with the Aug. 3 Proposition C referendum on  federal health care reform. But Timothy D. McBride, PhD, associate dean for public health at the Brown School, says no matter the outcome, the vote will have little impact on the new health care law.

Outlet: FOX2now St. Louis Title/Program: Eating Raw Crayfish Causes Mysterious Illness Publication Date: 07/29/2010 Extract: ONLINE VIDEO. Over the past year, some Missouri stream floaters have found themselves hospitalized with an illness so strange, it is difficult to diagnose. Adam Brewer’s troubles began on a float trip when he pulled a live crayfish out of […]

Outlet: GenomeWeb Title/Program: CMS to reimburse for genetic testing in Iverson’s Warfarin PGx study; Genmark to provide platform Publication Date: 07/28/2010 Extract: A five-year Genetics Informatics Trial of Warfarin, or GIFT, is being led by Brian Gage, an internist and health service researcher at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and involves 1,600 knee […]

The protein SIRT1 in the brain is tied into a mechanism that allows animals to survive when food is scarce, according to a new study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The research suggests that SIRT1 may be involved with the life span-increasing effect of low-calorie diets, they report.

John C. Georgian, who taught mechanical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis for 60 years, died Tuesday, July 6, 2010, in St. Louis after a brief illness. He was 97.

Two doctoral students have received Fulbright-Hays grants to conduct research abroad in the 2010-2011 academic year.

The Brown School has received a five-year, $2 million Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development award. The grant will fund research led by Patricia Kohl, PhD, to test the Pathways Triple P parent-training program in the high-risk child welfare population.

Ashley Pearson, a graduate architecture student in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, miters lumber to length for a new shade pavilion in University City’s Heman Park. The pavilion is the centerpiece of a summer design/build class led by Carl Safe, professor of architecture.