Notables

Carey-Ann Burnham, PhD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a one-year, $58,750 grant from The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences for research titled “Sequencing and Culture-Based Evaluation of Skin Flora Following Decolonization.”

Stephen Oh, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award and a Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award, both totaling $486,000, for research titled “Targeting Aberrant Signaling Pathways in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms.”

Mary Ellen Joyce, PhD, executive director of Brookings Executive Education, recently has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Mark J. Manary, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been awarded one of three research grants from the Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science at the New York Academy of Sciences.

Ashley Gilkey, the diversity in retention coordinator at Cornerstone: The Center for Advanced Learning at Washington University in St. Louis, recently was selected for the 63rd class of the Coro Women in Leadership Program with Focus St. Louis.

Andrey Shaw, MD, the Emil R. Unanue Professor of Immunobiology in the Department of Pathology and Immunology and director of the Division of Immunobiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a one-year, $84,583 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Confluence Life Sciences Inc. for research titled “Development of TAK1 Inhibitors to Treat Pancreatic Cancer.”

Ram V. Dixit, PhD, assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, received a five-year, $1,163,940 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation to study mechanisms underlying plant cell morphogenesis.

​The new CIRCLE Fellows program is assisting faculty in their implementation of active-learning teaching strategies that can enhance student engagement and learning.

A new study at the School of Medicine is focused on understanding how the pathways identified by the Human Connectome Project differ in people with psychiatric illnesses. Principal investigator Daniel Mamah, MD, said the group’s goal is to look at diagnosing psychiatric illness in a different way.

Ching-Cheng (Stanley) Huang, PhD, a postdoctoral research scholar in the laboratory of Edward J. Pearce, PhD, professor of pathology and immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a two-year, $98,476 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled “Role of Lipid Droplet Lipolysis in Alternative Macrophage Activation.”