School of Medicine

Barbara P. Turner, a longtime staff member in the Division of Comparative Medicine at the School of Medicine, died Sept. 26 in her Belleville, Ill., home after a battle with breast cancer. She was 58.

Anesthesiologist Michael S. Avidan, MBBCh, reproductive biologist Sarah K. England, PhD, and neurologist Timothy Miller, MD, PhD, all of the School of Medicine, have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine in the United States.

Beverly Brozanski, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named the inaugural Susan and James C. Gould Professor of Pediatric Quality and Safety.

The National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded graduate student Lizzie Tilden an F30 fellowship that supports physician-scientists in training.  

Michelle M. Miller-Thomas, MD, and Monica Shokeen, associate professors of radiology, have been appointed to two new vice chair positions for the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at the School of Medicine.

Alex Holehouse, an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the School of Medicine, will receive the New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

A large, multidisciplinary team at the School of Medicine has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to tackle complex problems in neuroscience.

Ali Ellebedy, an associate professor at the School of Medicine, and colleagues have received a $13 million grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project that will bring together experts from multiple disciplines across five research institutions to create better vaccines to fight against current and emerging coronaviruses. 

Researchers at the School of Medicine and the McKelvey School of Engineering have developed a noninvasive technique called sonobiopsy that uses ultrasound and microbubbles to release biomolecules from brain tumors. A blood draw can collect the biomolecules to help inform treatment decisions.

Sumanth Prabhu, MD, director of the Cardiovascular Division at the School of Medicine, is a heart failure specialist with a passion for patient care.