A groundbreaking for a new, $50 million Shriners Hospitals for Children-St. Louis recently was held on the Washington University Medical Center campus. The planned hospital, at the corner of Clayton Road and Newstead Avenue, will replace the Shriners Hospital in Frontenac. Shown is a rendering of what the building will look like from Interstate 64/Highway 40.
In an engineering breakthrough, a Washington
University in St. Louis biomedical researcher has discovered a way to
use light and color to measure oxygen in individual red blood cells in
real time. The technology, developed by Lihong Wang, PhD, the
Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, could
eventually be used to determine how oxygen is delivered to normal and
diseased tissues or how various disease therapies impact oxygen delivery
throughout the body.
The popular Saturday Science seminar series celebrates its 20th year by tackling on paradoxes, those fascinating little conundrums that are sometimes just words colliding but other times are cracks in our understanding of the world that, when prised open, give access to a much deeper understanding. The first lecture is Saturday, April 6.
In the next decade, the Washington University Medical Center campus will be transformed by renovations and new construction as part of the Campus Renewal Project. Shown is a preliminary rendering of what the Medical Center’s north campus may look like.
From March 22-25, the Sam Fox School—in conjunction with The Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington, D.C.— will present MISI-ZIIBI: Living with the Great Rivers, an international symposium investigating climate adaptation strategies in the Mississippi and Missouri basins.
Frederick Sweet, PhD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died Thursday, March 7, 2013, following a stroke. He was 74.
Leesa M. Galatz, MD, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and director of the Shoulder and Elbow Fellowship program, is pioneering new treatments for rotator cuff injuries.
Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of
Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has
received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science
Foundation (NSF) to study oxygen consumption rates of individual cells
using photoacoustic microscopy, a novel imaging technology he developed
that uses light and sound to measure change.
Caitlin Kelleher, PhD, has received a prestigious research fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Kelleher
is the Hugo F. & Ina Champ Urbauer Career Development Assistant
Professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at
Washington University in St. Louis. The two-year, $50,000
fellowship supports early-career scientists and scholars in science,
mathematics, economics and computer science. Fellows may use the funds
for equipment, technical assistance, professional travel or trainee
support.
M.J. Warsi, PhD, a well-known linguist and researcher who teacheslinguistics and Indian languages at Washington University in St. Louis,received the Inspirational Leadership Award at an international conference of intellectuals held recently at India International Centre, New Delhi.
