School of Medicine

Lindsay Clukies, MD, an associate professor of pediatrics, and Mariam Malik, MD, an assistant professor of radiology, have been named the 2023-25 Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Teaching Fellows at the School of Medicine.

Wayne Yokoyama, MD, director of the Division of Physician-Scientists at the School of Medicine, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to support early-career physicians interested in pursuing research in infectious diseases and immunology.

Jaebok Choi, PhD, and Russell Pachynski, MD, both of the School of Medicine, have received Research Scholar Grants from the American Cancer Society to support their research in oncology. Both investigators are research members of Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the School of Medicine.

Crustaceans, insects and mushrooms are rich sources of the dietary fiber chitin, which activates the immune system and benefits metabolism, according to a new study, in mice, led by researchers at the School of Medicine.

Stanley Paul Hmiel, MD, PhD, a pediatric nephrologist at the School of Medicine, died surrounded by family Aug. 28 at a hospice in Creve Coeur, Mo., after a three-year struggle with colon cancer. He was 64.

Led by principal investigator David Mutch, MD, researchers at the School of Medicine have received a prestigious Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant in endometrial cancer from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Gaya Amarasinghe, the Alumni Endowed Professor of pathology and immunology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $16.8 million grant renewal from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for Ebola virus research.

Neuroscientist Steven Mennerick, the John P. Feighner Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at the School of Medicine, has been named director and associate dean of the Roy and Diana Vagelos Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences.

Carlos A. Perez, MD, an internationally renowned cancer researcher and professor emeritus of radiation oncology at the School of Medicine, died Aug. 21 in Springfield, Mo.

Researchers led by the School of Medicine’s Linda J. Richards published a study describing some of the earliest events in brain development. The findings lay the groundwork for understanding the roots of brain conditions such as epilepsy, autism and intellectual disability.