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WashU Medicine is one of eight academic medical centers to be selected for the Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders. The program will provide funding to train a movement disorder specialist in the Department of Neurology.

Jorge A. Di Paola, MD, a professor of pediatrics at WashU Medicine, has been honored by the American Society of Hematology with the 2025 Mentor Award in Basic Science.

A special Convocation photo gallery from WashU.

Mechanical and materials engineer Sara Roccabianca has been named director of the Center for Women’s Health Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.

A new study in mice by WashU Medicine researchers identifies a possible strategy for cardiac immunotherapy that could boost beneficial immune cells that, surprisingly, travel from the spleen to the heart and orchestrate healing after a heart attack.

Leila Sadat, the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law at WashU, has been appointed to the board of eyeWitness to Atrocities, founded by the International Bar Association.

Stuart A. Kornfeld, MD, the David C. and Betty Farrell Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025, in St. Louis from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 88.

Catherine Hanaway, a member of WashU’s Board of Trustees, has been appointed to serve as Missouri attorney general. As such, Hanaway will step down from the board. She will be sworn in Sept. 8.

Alexander Chamessian, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, was one of two early-career leaders chosen for this year’s Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Award in Pain.

William H. Webster, an honorary emeritus trustee at Washington University in St. Louis, died Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, in Warrenton, Va. He was 101.