School of Medicine

Great medical school mentors shaped Jay Kaiser’s career as a radiologist. Now, he and his wife make sure other aspiring physicians can have the same experience.

Two new grants support efforts at WashU Medicine to design vaccines, drugs for understudied virus families.

As a health-care executive, alumna KMarie King, MD, follows a set of principles: ‘Be kind, have integrity and the patient comes first.’

Researchers at WashU Medicine described, in mice, a brain pathway that connects the loss of motivation characteristic of advanced cancer to cancer-related inflammation and identified opportunities to block this pathway and restore motivation.

WashU Medicine’s Eric C. Leuthardt, MD, and Robi Mitra, PhD, have been named fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Megan Tierney Baldridge, MD, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at WashU Medicine, received a $100,000 grant to explore the interactions between the viruses that infect bacteria, known as bacteriophages, and human intestinal epithelial cells.

Researchers at Washington University have received a $4 million grant to study specialized cells that could help treat kidney disease.

Researchers at WashU Medicine found that a small population of immune cells in the mouse intestine prevents allergic responses to food, suggesting that targeting such cells therapeutically could potentially lead to a new treatment for allergies.

Researchers at WashU Medicine have harnessed the internal circadian clock of the body to deliver medication for an inflammatory illness precisely when it was most needed.

Aaron Y. Lee, MD, a leader in applying artificial intelligence to ophthalmology research and patient care, will head the John. F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences at WashU Medicine.