School of Medicine

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) has recognized three researchers at the School of Medicine for their studies of infectious diseases. Instructor Jeffrey Henderson will receive the BWF 2008 Career Award for Medical Scientists. Assistant professors David Wang and Dong Yu will each receive a 2008 BWF Investigators in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease award.

John William “Bill” Jermyn III, D.O., clinical instructor in the Division of Emergency Medicine, died suddenly Thursday, May 15, 2008.

Sharon Keathley, secretary III at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology who retired in 1993, died Saturday, March 8, 2008, of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at her home in St. Louis. She was 78.

Washington University has awarded four Bear Cub Fund grants totaling $150,000 to support innovative research projects that could be attractive for licensing by commercial entities or serve as the foundation for a start-up company.

A new program in the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Obstetrics Clinic is helping to prevent lead poisoning among children in the city of St. Louis.

Changing the sugars attached to a hormone produced in the pituitary gland increased fertility levels in mice nearly 50 percent, School of Medicine research has found.

Photo by Robert BostonJulie Gerberding, M.D., director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, spoke to School of Medicine graduates at Commencement May 16, 2008, at America’s Center.

Young women who were physically active had a 23 percent lower risk of breast cancer before menopause, new research from the School of Medicine shows.

GoateInvestigators at the School of Medicine have identified a genetic variation associated with an earlier age of onset in Alzheimer’s disease. Unlike genetic mutations previously linked to rare, inherited forms of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease — which can strike people as young as their 30s or 40s — these variants influence an earlier presentation of symptoms in people affected by the more common, late-onset form of the disease.

Jeffrey Bradley, associate professor of radiation oncology, has been named the first director of the Kling Center for Proton Therapy, a facility for treating cancer patients with a new, highly precise form of radiation therapy. The center is scheduled to open in summer 2009 at the Siteman Cancer Center at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital.