School of Medicine

Applications for KL2 Career Development Award scholars to begin July 2009 are being accepted through Sept. 30 at 5 p.m.

School of Medicine scientists have discovered new genetic mutations and molecular pathways underlying the most common form of brain cancer and the most aggressive.

Image from *What is Atherosclerosis*, courtesy of National Heart, Lung, and Blood InstituteAtherosclerosis in an arteryFuturistic nanotechnology has been teamed with a decades-old drug to beat atherosclerotic plaques in research conducted at the School of Medicine. The scientists have found that drug-laced nanoparticles plus a statin could stop the growth of tiny blood vessels that feed arterial plaques. Their results suggest that the dual treatment also prevents the vessels from restarting their growth, which could shrink or stabilize plaques.

A $10 million, government-funded, multicenter clinical trial of an aggressive treatment for blood clots in the leg known as deep vein thrombosis (DVT) will be led by researchers at the School of Medicine. Approximately 250,000 U.S. patients are diagnosed with new DVTs every year.

The Society for Nuclear Medicine (SNM) has created an annual award named for Michael J. Welch, Ph.D., professor of radiology, of developmental biology and of chemistry at the School of Medicine. Welch, who specializes in the synthesis of new radioactive chemicals for medical imaging, is head of the Radiochemistry Laboratory Institute at the Mallinckrodt Institute […]

Washington University faculty physicians have assumed responsibility for providing medical care in the Emergency Department at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital. The addition of Washington University emergency medicine physicians continues the enhancement of clinical services at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital.

Van HareGeorge Van Hare, M.D., has been appointed director of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at the School of Medicine and the Louis Larrick Ward Chair in Pediatric Cardiology at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

Providing fruits for snacks and serving vegetables at dinner can shape a preschooler’s eating patterns for his or her lifetime.

Photo by Ray MarklinLesley Rankin was part of the Young Scientist Program designed to attract high-school students primarily from disadvantaged backgrounds into scientific careers.

Barry P. Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., has been named director of the Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine.