School of Medicine

The Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research has announced that Alex Evers, MD, the Henry E. Mallinckrodt Professor of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, will receive the foundation’s 2024 Mentoring Excellence in Research Award. 

WashU Medicine researchers are helping transform mind-bending psychedelics into treatments for devastating mental illnesses.

WashU researcher Deanna Barch was recognized by two national organizations for her work on schizophrenia and other mental health conditions.

Siteman Cancer Center’s new building for outpatient care will be named the Gary C. Werths Building. A transformative commitment by the late Werths and his husband, Richard Frimel, will support cancer research and medical student scholarships.

The Siteman Blood Cancer Center delivers tomorrow’s treatments today.

Getting a head start on detection and treatment in adults under 50.

Adam Eggebrecht, an associate professor of radiology at WashU Medicine, received $4 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to disseminate powerful cloud-based resources to the brain mapping community. 

Researchers at WashU Medicine engineered a yeast probiotic to deliver immunotherapy to the gut where it reduced gastrointestinal tumors in mice, offering a potentially novel strategy to target hard-to-reach gut cancers.

Researchers at WashU have used AI tools to describe three sub-types of Chiari type-1, which will help guide clinicians to make the most effective treatment decisions for their patients.

Several WashU faculty members contributed to the St. Louis Reparations Commission report, which outlined recommendations for city officials to repair the harm caused by racial injustice.