DNA sequencing helps identify cancer cells for immune system attack
DNA sequences from tumor cells can be used to direct the immune system to attack cancer, according to Robert Schreiber, PhD, the
Alumni Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The research, in mice, appears online Feb. 8 in Nature.
Longer Life Foundation grants to be awarded
The Longer Life Foundation is seeking applications for research funding in 2012. The group plans to fund four or five grants in 2012. Letters of Intent are due by Feb. 20.
Emergency medicine offers new fellowship
The Division of Emergency Medicine is offering a
two-year fellowship designed to allow emergency medicine trainees and
others interested in clinical, translational or basic research careers
to develop the skills to become successful, independent investigators. The program, which is coordinated through the
Clinical Research Training Center, culminates in a master’s degree of
science in clinical investigation.
Clues to rare childhood brain tumor uncovered
New research from the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
– Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project (PCGP) shows that mutations linked to a rare, lethal childhood tumor of the
brainstem play a unique role in other aggressive pediatric brain tumors. The findings offer important insight into a poorly understood tumor that kills more than 90 percent of patients within two years.
Washington People: David J. Murray
David J. Murray, MD, chose pediatric anesthesia as a way to gain the confidence that he could manage the very worst that might happen, no matter how bad it got. Now, he uses clinical simulation to help students and residents learn to confront emergencies.
Same genes linked to early- and late-onset Alzheimer’s
The same gene mutations linked to inherited, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease have been found in people with the more common late-onset form of the illness. The discovery by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may lead doctors and researchers to change the way Alzheimer’s disease is classified.
Winter blues see the light
People of all ages can develop winter blues or seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a type of clinical depression which occurs typically during the fall and winter and resolves itself by spring. Eric Lenze, MD, professor of psychiatry at
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, says bright light therapy, sometimes called phototherapy, is the treatment of choice for seasonal affective disorder.
Mom’s love good for child’s brain
School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress. The new research, by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is the first to show that changes in this key region of children’s brain anatomy are linked to a mother’s nurturing.
Morrison gets recognitions from American College of Physicians
Aubrey Morrison, MBBS, professor of medicine and
of developmental biology, has been named a Master of the American
College of Physicians. In addition, he received the American
College of Physicians Award for Outstanding Work in Science as Related
to Medicine. He is the first person from Washington University School
of Medicine to receive this award.
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Health Happening Fair Feb. 3
Interested in getting a glimpse into your health
for 2012? Visit the Health Happening health and wellness fair from 7:30
a.m.–3 p.m. Feb. 3 in the Eric P. Newman Education Center for a variety
of free health screenings and informational booths.
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