Researchers to study leader cells in breast cancer model
Gregory D. Longmore, MD, at the School of Medicine, and Amit Pathak, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will study the cells that lead the migration of deadly tumor cells through the body with a five-year $2.54 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant.
Protein delivery may help treat diabetic limb problems
A $2.3 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant will fund Jianjun Guan and Fuzhong Zhang’s effort to develop and deliver therapeutic proteins to help treat injured limbs.
Zhao receives grant to study proteomics in the brain
Guoyan Zhao, assistant professor in neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine, received a $433,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to apply a cutting-edge imaging technology to study subcellular features of brain tissue from Alzheimer’s patients.
Researchers to study coronavirus packaging
Andrea Soranno, Kathleen Hall and Alex Holehouse, all at the School of Medicine, received a new five-year $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research genome packaging of the virus that causes COVID-19.
New tech can double spectral bandwidth in some 5G systems
Using the properties of a unique class of materials, researchers, including Aravind Nagulu at the McKelvey School of Engineering, may have found a way to dramatically increase the bandwidth available for wireless communications.
Pappu lab untangles more IDR secrets
Rohit Pappu’s latest look at intrinsically disordered regions of proteins explains why some sequences behave in different ways. His paper was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Padoa-Schioppa receives NIH grant
Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, professor at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Neuronal mechanisms of good-based economic decisions.”
Samineni wins NIH research grant
Vijay K. Samineni, assistant professor of anesthesiology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.3 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Murphy receives National Cancer Institute grant
Kenneth M. Murphy, MD, PhD, the Eugene Opie First Centennial Professor of Pathology & Immunology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for T cell research.
Liu to explore allergies and infections
Qin Liu, associate professor at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research on respiratory allergies.
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