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Payne elected fellow of international informatics academy

Philip R. O. Payne, director of the Institute for Informatics at the School of Medicine, has been elected a fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics.

Medicine

Developmental biologist receives NIH grant

Kristen Kroll, professor of developmental biology at the School of Medicine, has received a four-year $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her project on human interneuron progenitor specification.

Science & Technology

Washington University collaborates with Agilent, Merck to expand metabolomics research

Using top-of-the-line research instrumentation from Agilent and Merck, scientists in the Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences will develop new metabolomics workflows of interest to many members of the drug-development community.

Campus & Facilities

Chancellor marks Workday’s launch July 1

Workday, WashU’s new human resources and financial administrative system, will launch tomorrow, July 1. Here, Chancellor Andrew D. Martin shares a video message marking this important milestone and thanking the team that worked on the project.

Appointments & Promotions

Introducing Anna Gonzalez

Anna Gonzalez, the newly appointed vice chancellor for student affairs at Washington University, discusses her background, her leadership style and her hopes for the future.

Physical Sciences

Physicist Nagy has leading role in next-gen balloon mission

With NASA’s latest balloon technology, Johanna Nagy in Arts & Sciences is looking 13 billion years into the past, using the oldest light in the universe, to precisely measure the polarization of the microwave sky.

Cancer Research

Cell-based immunotherapy shows promise against melanoma

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have shown in preclinical studies that a natural killer cell-based immunotherapy could be effective against solid tumors such as melanoma.

Science & Technology

Living Earth Collaborative announces 2021 seed grant recipients

Collaborators from eight St. Louis area institutions will investigate the microbiomes of local box turtles; the diversification of flowering plants in the Gulf of Guinea; and adaptation to climate change and biodiversity loss in Madagascar, among other projects.

Awards & Notables

Researcher receives NIH funding for zebrafish work

Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, at the School of Medicine, has received a five-year $3.36 million renewal grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her project “Inductive and Morphogenetic Processes Shaping the Zebrafish Embryonic Axes.”

Public Health

Evidence-based public health instruction shows tangible results

A recent evaluation by a team of researchers at the Brown School and other universities found that training in evidence-based public health practices improves practitioner skill levels.