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Achilefu, Luby elected to National Academy of Medicine

Medical imaging scientist Samuel Achilefu and child psychiatrist Joan L. Luby, MD, both of Washington University School of Medicine, have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in health and medicine.

Cancer Research

African American breast cancer patients less likely to receive genetic counseling, testing

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have surveyed cancer doctors to identify differences in physician attitudes and beliefs that may contribute to a gap in referrals to genetic counseling and testing between Black women and white women with breast cancer.

Neuroscience & Memory

Drug helps sensory neurons regrow in the mouse central nervous system

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have discovered that an FDA-approved drug acts on support cells in the central nervous system to encourage sensory neurons to regrow after injury.

Performing Arts

‘She Kills Monsters’

When teenage Dungeon Master Tilly Evans dies in a car wreck, her sister must commence a mythic quest of her own. So begins “She Kills Monsters,” a bittersweet coming-of-age story filled with demon queens, secret tomes and ragtag adventurers battling for lost souls.

Neuroscience & Memory

Emotional aspects of chronic pain isolated in brain circuitry

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have identified circuitry in the brain that appears to link pain to negative emotional states. The findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, could lead to new treatments.

Awards & Notables

Colonna receives NIH grants

Marco Colonna, the Robert Rock Belliveau Professor of Pathology and Immunology 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) and a one-year $1.6 million grant from the National Institute On Aging of the NIH.

Awards & Notables