School of Medicine

Michael J. Holtzman, MD, the Selma and Herman Seldin Professor of Medicine and director of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the School of Medicine, received a $2.5 million grant from the Department of Defense for work toward a novel drug to treat lung disease.

Sándor J. Kovács, PhD, MD, a professor of medicine and of cell biology and physiology at the School of Medicine, has been elected an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

The Division of Physician-Scientists at the School of Medicine has selected three physicians for its third class of Dean’s Scholars.

A National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to Washington University School of Medicine will support research into understanding lung cancer recurrence.

The Washington University School of Medicine is one of nine U.S. academic institutions selected by the American Society of Hematology for the organization’s Hematology-Focused Fellowship Training Program. Applications open in July.

The St. Louis Business Journal has recognized Anthony T. Dao, MD, an instructor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the School of Medicine, with a Business of Pride Award.

A new study from Washington University School of Medicine found that the fiber byproducts of food production may be an untapped source of beneficial biomolecules that contribute to human health.

The School of Medicine has received $50,000 from Healthy Blue Missouri to support The SPOT (Supporting Positive Opportunities with Teens) at Jennings Senior High School.

The Organization for Human Brain Mapping has awarded its Glass Brain Award to Deanna Barch, of Arts & Sciences and the School of Medicine, in recognition of her influential work on the function of the human brain.

A community-based rehabilitation program may be an effective way to provide services to people with disabilities even in places with conflict such as Afghanistan, finds a new study from the Brown School and the School of Medicine at Washington University.