School of Medicine

The School of Medicine and ALS Hope — The Chris Hobler/James Maritz Foundation have teamed to create the center.

Photo by David KilperRonald B. DeMattoes and David M. Holtzman examine brain tissues of mice with Alzheimers-like plaques.14,000 square feet in the McMillan and Irene Walter Johnson buildings are being renovated for the Neuroclinical Research Unit.

General asthma rates have been steadily rising, but the most dramatic increases have occurred among urban youth.

He has been a visiting professor at the University since 1987, spending a portion of each year in the Department of Pediatrics. More medical news…

CiechanoverAaron Ciechanover, M.D., D.Sc., visiting professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine and Research Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, was selected Oct. 6 to receive the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

When bright light shines in the eye, the pupil constricts. In dim light, it dilates. Now investigators at the School of Medicine have demonstrated in chickens that a protein called cryptochrome plays a key role in that reflex.

Singer songwriter Chris Hobler has teamed up with the School of Medicine to help create a new center dedicated to neurological research. Hobler suffers from ALS, commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Read more in the following article written by Tina Hesman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Two initiatives in the Department of Neurology should help in the effort to take research from bench to bedside, a key strategy for BioMed 21. Learn more about each of the projects in the following story from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and two School of Medicine press releases.

To stick to cells in the respiratory tract and start an infection, the bacterium Haemophilus influenza has to secrete a glue-like protein. Researchers at the School of Medicine recently reported that a study of the valve that lets out the glue has produced some surprising information.

A well-known enzyme present in the skin and other tissues turns out to be a molecule-sized motor that extracts its fuel from the road it runs on, according to researchers at the School of Medicine. Their discovery appears in the Oct. 1 issue of Science.