EPA funds Moon’s biotech, containment research
The EPA visited Washington University to award $744,262 to Tae Seok Moon, associate professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, for cutting-edge biotechnology research.
Variations in sodium channel molecular composition may drive drug efficacy
Washington University’s Jonathan Silva and Jeanne Nerbonne led a team that found that two drugs sometimes prescribed to treat arrhythmias affect heart atria and ventricles differently depending on the molecular composition of the sodium channels expressed.
Scialog awards $50,000 grant to Kamilov to merge imaging technologies
Scialog: Advancing BioImaging has awarded Ulugbek Kamilov $50,000 for research into the merging of two imaging technologies.
Engineering her own path
Dianne Chong studied to be a doctor but ended up in the Women in Engineering Hall of Fame.
George and Carol Bauer: Leading through service
Emeritus trustee George Bauer, BS ’53, MS ’59, and his wife, Carol Bauer, believe in the power of servant leadership. Here they talk about their exemplary service to Washington University and why they established the George and Carol Bauer Leaders Academy for the Danforth Scholars Program.
WashU runs in the family
For the Glazers, family reunions look more like WashU Reunions.
Connective issue: AI learns by doing more with less
Research from the lab of Shantanu Chakrabartty reveals constraints can lead to learning in AI systems.
NIH funds Rudra, Jackrel to improve vaccines for elderly
Washington University’s Meredith Jackrel and Jai Rudra and are researching nanofiber materials that will eliminate the need for vaccine adjuvants.
Two strands are tougher than one
Research from the lab of Kimberly Parker at the McKelvey School of Engineering reveals key differences between single- and double-stranded RNA, insights that may prove useful to fields from agriculture to medicine.
Moon to engineer microbes to control heat production
Tae Seok Moon, associate professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, has received a three-year $501,246 grant from the Office of Naval Research to study heat from the human microbiota.
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