Record

Rachel Sachs, a WashU professor of law, has been appointed to the Illinois Advisory Council on Financing and Access to Sickle Cell Disease Treatment and Other High-Cost Drugs and Treatments.

Ugandan women’s ability to negotiate the conditions and timing of sex is key to preventing several reproductive health outcomes, say experts from the university’s Brown School.

David J. Gray has been appointed interim senior vice chancellor and chief financial officer, Chancellor Andrew D. Martin announced.

Microscopy engineers at Washington University model how molecules move to enhance understanding of nanoscale biological systems.

Busayo Akinloye and Mayah Clayton, who are pursuing master’s degrees in public health in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, have been named This Is Public Health Ambassadors for 2024-25 by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health.

Washington University School of Medicine faculty members Mark Rutherford and Yang E. Li have won grants from St. Baldrick’s Foundation to study pediatric cancers.

The Lymphoma Research Foundation has appointed Todd Fehniger, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, to its scientific advisory board.

Parking and Transportation at WashU has updated its shuttle services and schedule, effective Aug. 26. The changes aim to streamline transportation options and improve efficiency.

Kevin Blake, a scientific editor in the Department of Pathology & Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been honored for an essay he wrote titled “Missing Microbiomes: Global Underrepresentation Restricts Who Research Will Benefit.”

Raja Dandamudi, MD, Vikas Dharnidharka, MD, and Tarek Alhamad, MD, all at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, contributed to a large study that identified a novel way of detecting signs of organ rejection.