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Nine faculty members at Washington University School of Medicine have been elected fellows of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Fellowship in IDSA is considered among the highest honors in the field of infectious diseases.

Mohamed A. Zayed, MD, PhD, associate professor of surgery and of radiology, received a four-year $2.1 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Ramakrishna Kommagani, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $1.9 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research endometriosis.

A team led by Zhen (Jason) He at the McKelvey School of Engineering earned second place at the 2021 Intelligent Water Systems Challenge for its solution to a wastewater treatment problem.

Richard W. Gross, PhD, MD, professor at the School of Medicine and in Arts & Sciences, received a four-year $2.3 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research bioenergetics.

Mohamed Mahjoub, associate professor of at the School of Medicine, received a three-year $1.8 million grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for kidney disease research.

Steven J. Mennerick at the School of Medicine received a five-year $2.3 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The Parking and Transportation team provides year-end updates, including a management system update Dec. 8-15, details on sharing rides for winter break and more.

Irene Antony, a neuroscience major in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, won the Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience.

Paul J. Shaw at the School of Medicine received a one-year $2.3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research interactions between sleep and Alzheimer’s disease.