Research Wire

A study led by WashU Medicine researchers reveals molecular insights into Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other dementias that could lead to earlier, more precise diagnoses.

WashU Arts & Sciences researchers clarify when complexity enables prediction in microbial systems.

Researchers at WashU have won $2.7 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a five-year investigation into the power of sleep to prevent, delay and diminish Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Two WashU Medicine researchers have received three-year, $750,000 awards from the Edward P. Evans Foundation to advance the study of certain types of blood cancer.

A study by WashU Medicine researchers offers new insight into how environmental factors protect against opioid addiction and support recovery.

Milan G. Chheda, MD, at WashU Medicine and a brain tumor specialist at Siteman Cancer Center, based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine, has received a nearly $1.5 million grant from the Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation.

A multi-institutional team, including Chongjie Zhang at WashU McKelvey Engineering, developed a new method that enables robots to achieve intentions shown by their peers.

Researchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at WashU have developed a new method to understand information in complex systems, which can be applied toward development of unmanned aerial vehicles.

WashU Arts & Sciences biologists Toby Pennington and Jonathan Myers contributed to an ambitious study on South America’s tropical forests, revealing important shifts in biodiversity.

Sarah Ackerman, at WashU Medicine, has been named a winner of the Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery Prize by the Pershing Square Foundation.