Research Wire

WashU Medicine researchers show that psychedelic compounds such as psilocybin appear to distort the link between blood flow and brain-cell functioning, which scientists use to track brain activity.

Naresha Saligrama, of WashU Medicine, led a multi-institution team that uncovered important differences between human T cells that live in specific tissues and T cells found in the blood, with major implications for future research and diagnostics.

With a joint award from the Helmsley Charitable Trust, WashU Medicine and Emory University researchers will develop artificial intelligence software tools to improve diagnosis and treatment of a common complication of Crohn’s disease.

Eleven WashU research teams recently received Global Incubator Seed Grants to kick-start international projects.

Meaghan Creed, an associate professor of anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, has received a $3.3 million five-year grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study dopamine system changes underlying depression symptoms in people with chronic neuropathic pain.

Doctoral student Ruiqi Wang at Washington University in St. Louis has received a prestigious Google PhD fellowship for health research.

In recent research, Guy Genin, a biomedical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis, has identified phase transitions in living tissue that could explain why fibrosis suddenly accelerates.

Ganesh Chand, an assistant professor at WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, will study why some Alzheimer’s patients experience neuropsychiatric symptoms such as apathy and depression.

Computer engineers from Washington University in St. Louis have released a round of “computer vision” tools that can help with species classification and autonomous driving technologies.

Computer science researchers at Washington University in St. Louis were honored for a paper that has made a longstanding impact on the field of embedded software.