Researchers at Washington University are receiving one of 19 grant awards that will support data science research and training activities in Africa. The researchers will focus on developing new training programs in health data science in Rwanda.
People taking TNF inhibitors, a kind of immunosuppressive drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune conditions, produced a weaker and shorter-lived antibody response after two doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine.
Jeremy Ryan, a graduate student working with Meredith Jackrel in the Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences, won a three-year $123,090 fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
In a seemingly counterintuitive finding, young adults diagnosed with central nervous system tumors might have better survival rates the farther they live from care, finds a new Brown School study.
Washington University first-year student Emma Lembke didn’t need a Facebook whistleblower or neuroscience researchers to tell her social media messes with the adolescent brain. She lived it. And it led her to found Log Off.
Brian N. Finck, professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $1.7 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
Dakotah Jennifer, a senior majoring in English in Arts & Sciences, and a Danforth Scholar, was featured on the BBC’s “Global Climate Debate” news special, featuring leaders gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, for the United Nations’ recent COP26 climate change meeting.
Washington University in St. Louis is part of a newly formed coalition designed to reduce racial, economic and spatial inequities in the St. Louis region.
Legail P. Chandler, vice chancellor for human resources, has announced plans to retire June 30, according to Shantay Bolton, executive vice chancellor for administration and chief administrative officer.
Daniel Kreisel, surgical director of lung transplantation at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, is a principal investigator in a clinical trial funded with a $22 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The trial aims to reduce lung transplant rejection.
