School of Medicine

HoltzmanDavid Holtzman, the Andrew B. and Gretchen P. Jones Professor and head of Neurology, is co-recipient of the MetLife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer’s Disease. Holtzman is also associate director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) and a member of the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders at the School of Medicine.

Washington University received an initial $500,000 from Allied Minds to launch a new brain imaging technology firm.

A School of Medicine review of Missouri birth data found that African-American women are three times more likely to deliver babies prematurely than Caucasian women.

Photo by Robert BostonSecond-year medical students play Jeopardy to review for an exam in Diseases of the Nervous System.

Timothy J. Eberlein, M.D., received the 2006 Dr. Rodman L. Sheen and Thomas G. Sheen Award for his outstanding contributions to the medical profession.

School of Medicine heart surgeons have developed and tested a device that radically shortens and simplifies a complex surgical procedure for persistent atrial fibrillation.

A total of $2 million in research grants to investigators on both the Danforth and Medical School campuses opens the door for science to begin at the Institute.

Colin G. Nichols, Ph.D., recently became the first Carl F. Cori Professor at the School of Medicine. Nichols, who is professor of cell biology and physiology, studies molecules on the surfaces of cells known as ion channels. These channels let charged particles pass into and out of cells and play critical roles in physiological processes from thoughts to movement.

Investigators at the School of Medicine are expanding an ongoing study of the effects of combining exercise training with hormone therapy to improve physical function and quality of life in men 65 years of age and older.

Linda Babcock, co-author of “Women Don’t Ask: Negotiations and the Gender Divide,” will discuss her book and research in a community forum on “societal factors that hold women back from asking for what they want” that runs from 7 – 8:30 p.m. March 5 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom, Anheuser Busch Hall, Danforth Campus of Washington University.