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KL2 career development awards announced

The School of Medicine’s KL2 Career Development Awards Program has selected its newest scholars. The training program promotes the career development of future clinical investigators.

Frieden receives NIH grant for Alzheimer’s research

Carl Frieden, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a five-year, $1.56 million grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Alzheimer’s Disease: Defining the apoE-amyloid-beta interaction.”
Medicine

Harder-to-abuse OxyContin doesn’t stop illicit use

A reformulation of OxyContin (left) that makes it less likely to be abused than the older formulation (right) has curtailed the drug’s illicit use. But researchers at the School of Medicine have found that a significant percentage still abuse the drug despite package labeling that emphasizes its abuse-deterrent properties. 

Landscape architecture students win awards

Two Master of Landscape Architecture candidates in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis have won Student Chapter Awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects’ St. Louis Chapter.
Science & Technology

​Hunting for meteorites

​​​​​Every austral summer, a group of volunteers heads off to a remote region of Antarctica to set up a field camp on the ice. For the next month, they search the ice and nearby glacial moraines for dark rocks that might be extraterrestrial in origin. Research scientist Christine Floss describes this year’s trip, which included a record-setting day. ​
Campus & Community

Sedley to deliver Biggs Lecture for Assembly Series

David Sedley, PhD, an internationally acclaimed Greek philosopher, will deliver the annual John and Penelope Biggs Lecture in the Classics for the Assembly Series at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 19, in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. The lecture, “What Is Plato’s Theory of Forms?” is free and open to the public.
Medicine & Health

Innovative light therapy reaches deep tumors

Researchers led by Samuel Achilefu, PhD, at the School of Medicine have devised a way to apply light-based therapy to deep tissues never before accessible. Instead of shining an outside light, they delivered light directly to tumor cells, along with a photosensitive source of free radicals that can be activated by the light to destroy cancer.