Siteman Cancer Center gains nationally recognized leader in cancer prevention
ColditzGraham A. Colditz, M.D., Dr.P.H., has been named the Niess-Gain Professor and associate director of Prevention and Control at the Siteman Cancer Center at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He will have overall responsibility for overseeing research, education, and community outreach in cancer prevention sponsored by the Center.
Naturally occurring enzyme can break down key part of Alzheimer’s plaques
Scientists have identified a naturally occurring enzyme that can break down a key component of the brain plaques characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease. The finding may provide researchers with new opportunities to understand what goes wrong in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients and could one day help them seek new therapies.
Neuroscientists awarded $14 million in two grants
The School of Medicine, a research leader in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, stroke and schizophrenia, will be among the first recipients of a major new National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to facilitate study of nervous system disorders. The NIH Blueprint for the Neurosciences Grant will provide $8 million to the University over five years.
Ferkol to head pediatric allergy, pulmonary medicine division
FerkolThomas Ferkol, M.D., has been named director of the Division of Allergy and Pulmonary Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Ferkol, associate professor of pediatrics and of cell biology and physiology, will continue as director of the Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship Program and as director of the Cystic Fibrosis Center.
Cigarette smoking shown to delay tendon-to-bone healing
School of Medicine researchers studied healing in the shoulders of 72 rats following rotator cuff surgery.
Surgery corrects vision in kids with neurological disorders
School of Medicine pediatric ophthalmologists surgically correct vision on some of the most profoundly impaired children.
Word of praise
Photo by Robert BostonJennifer Manly, John Morris, M.D., and Norman Seay at the first annual Norman R. Seay Lecture Sept. 19.
Polonsky elected to Institute of Medicine
Election to the academy is among the highest honors U.S. medical scientists can receive.
Academia, industry bring future of medicine to public
C-TRAIN to open Oct. 20 in the Center of Research Translation and Entrepreneurial Exchange (CORTEX) Building.
Genetic repair mechanism clears the way for sealing DNA breaks
DNA ligase encircles the DNA double helix.Scientists investigating an important DNA-repair enzyme now have a better picture of the final steps of a process that glues together, or ligates, the ends of DNA strands to restore the double helix. The enzyme, DNA ligase, repairs the millions of DNA breaks generated during the normal course of a cell’s life.
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