School of Medicine

The School of Medicine has assumed ownership and governance of a portion of CID’s programs and will continue to advance the institute’s mission.

Photo by Bob BostonTimothy J. Eberlein, director of the Siteman Cancer Center, introduces Lance Armstrong.More than 1,300 people packed into the World’s Fair Pavilion in Forest Park to see Armstrong and his Tour of Hope teammates.

He is the recipient of the 2003 Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education.

A University study “directly compares simple word reading across the age range from schoolchildren to adulthood,” said Bradley L. Schlaggar.

At the University, J. Perren Cobb is an associate professor of surgery and director of the Cellular Injury and Adaptation Laboratory.

“If this works out and we’re able to apply it in humans, we could be on our way to producing a major improvement,” principal investigator says.

The School of Medicine is also planning a six-level, 700-car parking garage above the MetroBus Transit Station.

Numerous small studies have suggested that the over-the-counter dietary supplement DHEA may reverse several effects of aging.

When five-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1996, he felt he was given a death sentence. “I felt hopeless,” he said. “But I quickly learned from my doctors, thanks to cancer research, new treatments were available that weren’t around just 10 years before. I’m alive today thanks to […]

Photo by Bob BostonDavid C. and Betty Farrell cut a cake at the Oct. 30 groundbreaking ceremony for the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center.