School of Medicine

Is depression rooted in our genes?Researchers at the School of Medicine are recruiting volunteers as part of an international study designed to uncover the genetic basis of major depression. Identification of susceptibility genes could revolutionize the current understanding of the disease and guide the design of new drugs to prevent or treat this debilitating disorder.

“Never imagine problems before they happen,” advises Ming You, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Chemoprevention Program at the Siteman Cancer Center. “Just start in, deal with problems as they come and many times they will be much simpler to solve than you thought.” His pragmatic philosophy may explain how You rapidly rose from a turbulent […]

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.