School of Medicine

Researchers at the School of Medicine have identified a previously unsuspected response by mouse heart muscle cells to fasting conditions: the cells’ power generators, the mitochondria, appear to remodel and consume extra internal walls or membranes in an effort to supply energy to the rest of the cell.

H. pylori bound to stomach tissueThe bacterium that causes ulcers and contributes to stomach cancers uses a clever interaction between two genes to randomly tighten and loosen its grip on the stomach, according to a study by researchers at the School of Medicine and Umeå University in Sweden.

The former assistant professor of clinical medicine died Oct. 7.

At WUSTL, he established the voice evaluation laboratory, which combined many methods of laryngeal evaluation.

“Our current system of production just is not able to keep up with demand,” says Michael Welch, the study’s principal investigator.

A five-year grant from the National Institute on Aging will launch the Healthy Aging and Senile Dementia program into its 21st year.

P. Roy Vagelos was head of the Department of Biological Chemistry at the School of Medicine from 1966-1975.

They seek to recognize the contributions made by teaching faculty in training medical students to become outstanding physicians.

Being studied is a drug designed to reduce the severe pain that can last for years after a bout with the disorder.

Courtesy photoThe annual Siteman Cancer Center holiday card can be purchased at the Barnard Health and Cancer Information Center.