Notables

Nathan O. Stitziel, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine and of genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the American Heart Association’s Mid-Career Award in Genomic and Precision Medicine.

Mohamed A. Zayed, MD, PhD, a vascular surgeon known for his pioneering research in vascular diseases, has been appointed director of the newly established Division of Surgical Sciences in the Department of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

The winners of the Big Ideas Competition, which supports novel projects in informatics and health-care delivery, have been announced. The competition is jointly sponsored by the Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the BJC Healthcare Innovation Lab.  

Gary Liu, a graduate student at the WashU School of Law, received a prestigious Roberts Fellowship from the Eisenhower Institute, which includes a $10,000 award to support research and educational costs.

Phyllis Jackson has assumed the role of associate dean for the Office of Scholar Programs, according to Anna Gonzalez, vice chancellor for student affairs. Her appointment took effect July 1. 

Engineering students at Washington University have developed an artificial intelligence tool for generating satellite images via text prompts and presented their work at a recent conference.

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis faculty members David M. Holtzman, MD, and Xiaoying Chen were awarded the inaugural Jeffrey L. Morby Prize from the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund.

Washington University in St. Louis has been chosen to mentor the University of Missouri as part of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Accelerating Research Translation program.

Vincent Vanyo, a PhD student in plant and microbial biosciences in the Roy and Diana Vagelos Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences at WashU, was selected to attend the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)’s 2024 summer training on fungal protein research.

Kannon Minnis, a rising junior in Arts & Sciences, has won a prestigious Peter Roth Internship from the Paley Center for Media in New York.