Alison Antes and Tristan McIntosh at the School of Medicine received a $2.1 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to support a project to advance early-career researcher excellence through leadership and management practices.
Washington University staff members are encouraged to nominate colleagues for the 2022 Distinguished Service Honors awards on the Danforth and Medical campuses. The nomination deadline is March 25.
Tammy English, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences, has been named a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
Barak A. Cohen, at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $1.28 million grant from the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study gene expression.
Kurt T. Dirks, vice chancellor for international affairs and director of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy at Washington University in St. Louis, has been appointed director of the George and Carol Bauer Leadership Center and senior adviser to the chancellor for leadership, effective July 1.
Hrishikesh S. Kulkarni, MD, an assistant professor of medicine and of molecular microbiology at the School of Medicine, has received the Early Career Award from the International Complement Society. The complement system is an important component of immunity.
Clay F. Semenkovich, MD, at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $1.53 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for vascular disease research.
Led by physicist Alex Meshik in Arts & Sciences, Washington University scientists designed and built the device that NASA is using to extract gases from a lunar sample from the Apollo 17 mission.
