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Medicine & Health

Flipping the switch to better see cancer cells at depths

​A team of engineers, led by Washington University’s Lihong Wang and postdoctoral researcher Junjie Yao, found that by genetically modifying glioblastoma cancer cells to express BphP1 protein, derived from a bacterium commonly found in soil and water, they could clearly see tiny amounts of live cancer cells as deep as 1 centimeter in tissue using photoacoustic tomography.
Campus & Community

Transgender Day of Remembrance events to be held on Washington University campus

Nov. 20 is national Transgender Day of Remembrance. Two events will be held on the Washington University in St. Louis campus, organized by student groups dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for the LGBTQIA community and to mark Trans* Awareness Week (TAW). The events will shine a light on the societal obstacles and legal barriers that generate and perpetuate hate-based violence and systemic oppression.
Humanities & Society

WashU Expert: Russia’s doping scandal​​

​It’s another far-reaching global sporting scandal as the World Anti-Doping Agency recommends the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) suspend Russia from athletics competition. Washington University’s Olin Business of Sports Program Director Patrick Rishe says the decision could have fallout of Olympic proportion.
Campus & Community

Gun violence initiative event to look at school-based approaches

Gun Violence: a Public Health Crisis
Harold Pollack, PhD, co-director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, will talk about socio-economic and school-based approaches and strategies for reducing gun violence and why they have or have not worked, during a keynote at 2 p.m. Nov. 12 in the Clark-Fox Forum at the Brown School’s Hillman Hall on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis.
Campus & Community

Washington People: Angela L. Brown

Angela L. Brown, MD, associate professor of medicine, leads the Hypertension Clinic at Washington University School of Medicine. Brown has devoted her career to helping patients control their hypertension and to training medical professionals in how to care for such patients.
Campus & Community

Film stars groundbreaking WashU surgeon

Tim Schaller and Susan MacKinnon perform nerve transfer surgery
The documentary film, “A Spark of Nerve,” which debuts at 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, at the 24th annual St. Louis International Film Festival, details Susan E. Mackinnon’s decades-long tenacity in pioneering the nerve-transfer procedure and the lives transformed by it.

Piccirillo named editor-in-chief of JAMA specialty journal

Jay F. Piccirillo, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named editor-in-chief of JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of 10 specialty journals in The Journal of the American Medical Association’s (JAMA) network of publications.
Business & Entrepreneurship

WashU Expert: Supreme Court birth control challenge bad for employees

The United States Supreme Court agreed Nov. 6, for the fourth time in three years, to rule on challenges to the Affordable Care Act. This time the court will rule on the birth control mandate. A decision siding with large nonprofit corporations in this new case means that employers would prevail at significant cost to employees, said Elizabeth Sepper, JD, religious freedom and health law expert at Washington University in St. Louis.