Research Wire

The drinking rate of adults who have had cancer has remained unchanged for nearly a decade, according to a new study by researchers at the WashU Brown School.

With a grant from Melinda French Gates’ organization, Pivotal, Caitlyn Collins, in Arts & Sciences, will investigate how parents navigate childcare and what policies could best meet their needs.

Funds from the American Cancer Society will support research by WashU Medicine’s Jennifer Silva-Fisher on drivers of growth and treatment resistance in multiple myeloma.

Stephen Stone, MD, an assistant professor of pediatrics at WashU Medicine, was awarded a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study a genetic condition that causes the body to lose fat in different regions of the body. The disease causes severe insulin resistance, diabetes and high cholesterol.

A collaboration led by WashU Medicine infectious diseases researcher Megan Baldridge, MD, PhD, could lead to new options for vulnerable patients to maintain healthy blood counts.

WashU Medicine faculty and research members of Siteman Cancer Center have identified a previously unknown population of aggressive tumor cells in difficult-to-treat head and neck cancers.

WashU Medicine infectious diseases expert Michael Diamond, MD, PhD, has won a $2.5 million prize to advance the development of drugs to treat debilitating chikungunya and related viruses.

WashU Medicine psychiatry researcher Jan Kubanek was recognized with the One Mind Rising Star Award for his work on applying ultrasound to map and modulate brain circuits involved in depression.

A study led by Laura Marks, MD, and Madeline McCrary, MD, of WashU Medicine, shows that an oral antiviral regimen can be used safely and effectively in pregnant patients with hepatitis C virus.

WashU McKelvey Engineering’s Lan Yang and her team have developed a new sensing technique to detect nanoparticles.