Research Wire

A graduate student in Arts & Sciences at WashU will study ways to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

Benjamin Garcia, the Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished Professor at WashU Medicine, along with colleagues Zongtao (Tom) Lin and Dongwen Lyu, received a four-year $2.4 million grant renewal from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

A new award supports work at Washington University to develop a framework that will allow autonomous systems to maintain safety even in the face of sensor malfunctions, mechanical failures or deliberate cyberattacks.

More than a dozen interdisciplinary research projects won the latest batch of “Here and Next” Seed Grants.

The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded Aimilia Gastounioti, an assistant professor at WashU Medicine, a five-year $3 million grant to improve breast cancer risk assessments for Black women.

With support from the U.S. Department of Defense, a team of WashU computer scientists is working to improve generative artificial intelligence for use in inaccessible, remote or embattled environments.

Mitra Naseh, an assistant professor at the Brown School, has received a three-year $463,654 grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health to study and improve the health of refugees in Missouri.

WashU engineer David Peters has developed a fresh approach to reaffirm classical airfoil theory.

Mice infected with the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) fared better when treated with an experimental compound that modulates immune responses, according to a study led by Christina Stallings, a professor of molecular microbiology at WashU Medicine.

Kory Lavine, MD, PhD, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Cardiology at WashU Medicine, has received a $600,000 grant from the Additional Ventures Foundation — an organization that funds research into congenital heart disease — to study hypoplastic left heart syndrome.