Researchers studying the genetic roots of the most common malignant childhood brain tumor have discovered missteps in three of the four subtypes of the cancer involving genes that are already being targeted for drug development.
Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Mark W. Smith, JD, assistant
vice chancellor and director of the Career Center at Washington
University of St. Louis, to serve on the Midwestern Higher Education
Commission (MHEC). The commission advances higher education through interstate cooperation and resource sharing.
Randall Bateman, MD, has been named the Charles F. and
Joanne Knight Distinguished Professor in Neurology at Washington
University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD, a neurofibromatosis expert
at the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington
University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the 2012
Friedrich von Recklinghausen Award.
A cross-Atlantic collaboration between scientists at
Washington University in St. Louis, and the European Synchrotron
Radiation Facility and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, both
in Grenoble, France, has revealed the workings of a switch that
activates plant hormones, tags them for storage or marks them for
destruction.
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine
in St. Louis have found new clues to why some urinary tract infections
recur persistently after multiple rounds of treatment. Their research, conducted in mice, suggests that the
bacteria that cause urinary tract infections take advantage of a
cellular waste disposal system that normally helps fight invaders.
Bradley P. Stoner, MD, PhD, has been elected president of the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association, the national society that represents researchers and clinicians specializing in sexually transmitted infections.
State laws that limit driving privileges for teens have reduced the incidence of drinking and driving among the nation’s youngest licensees, according to a new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Teens comprise less than 5 percent of licensed drivers in the country, but they account for roughly 20 percent of motor vehicle crashes.
Leading privacy law experts from around the world will gather in Cambridge, England, on June 26 and 27 for the first International Privacy Law conference, a joint effort between Washington University in St. Louis School of law and the University of Cambridge. “Every modern society is confronting novel issues of privacy, and our conference brings together some of the smartest thinkers about privacy in the world to compare notes and come up with new solutions,” says Neil M. Richards, JD, conference co-chair and professor of law at Washington University. Conference topics will include intellectual privacy, the conflict between privacy and free speech, the psychology of privacy, public access to court records, and privacy reform in Australia.
Math and music might seem a strange combination to
some. Certainly many famous performers are able to bring audiences to
their feet without once thinking about ratios or anything else overtly
mathematical. But David Wright, chairman of the mathematics department at Washington University in St. Louis, always has been gifted with an unusual, even
eerie, ability to hear both the music and the math simultaneously.
