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.”
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.
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.
Washington University School of Medicine and BJC HealthCare are planning to build a 12-to-14-story office building on the site of the Storz Building on the Medical Campus.
Oscar-nominated film “Timbuktu,” the Mauritanian masterpiece about Islamist extremists and the community that dares to defy them, headlines this year’s African Film Festival at Washington University in St. Louis, held March 27-29. Other highlights include a youth matinee and a discussion with filmmaker Ekwa Msangi.
Scholars of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience and other sciences of the mind will discuss how insight from their disciplines can help us better understand and eliminate the effects of racial bias in policing during a free forum March 27 at Washington University.
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.
Isotopic analysis of animal teeth from a 2,000-year-old herding settlement near Lake Victoria in southern Kenya show the area was once home to large grassland corridors — routes that could have been used to dodge tsetse flies and bring domesticated livestock to southern Africa.
Tracy Spitznagle, associate professor of physical therapy and of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named to the board of directors of the Worldwide Fistula Fund.
Ramesh Agarwal, PhD, the William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, will receive the 2015 Society of Automotive Engineers International Medal of Honor.
