School of Medicine

Justin Rustenhoven, a postdoctoral researcher at Washington University School of Medicine, has been named a finalist for the Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology.

Geoffrey Goodhill, professor of developmental biology and neuroscience at the School of Medicine, has received a two-year $675,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to enhance the capabilities of light field microscopy for brain imaging.

A new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital helps explain why mRNA vaccines have been so successful at preventing severe disease.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine are working to develop new treatments for two types of devastating parasitic infections common in sub-Saharan Africa and Central and South America: river blindness and intestinal worm infections.

Longtime St. Louis benefactor Joanne Knight has committed up to $11.5 million to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to support an innovative clinical trial aimed at preventing Alzheimer’s disease by treating people before the first signs of the illness appear in the brain.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine are conducting an Alzheimer’s prevention trial with young adults from high-risk families to evaluate whether an investigational drug can clear a key Alzheimer’s protein, amyloid beta, and slow or stop the disease.

Thomas M. De Fer, MD, a nationally recognized leader in medical education, has been named director of the Division of General Medicine within the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine.

Roberto Galletto at the School of Medicine received a five-year $2.1 million MIRA grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Daniel Scott Marcus, professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, received a one-year $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Daniel Griffith, a predoctoral trainee in biochemistry at the School of Medicine, received a three-year $138,000 Graduate Research Fellowship award from the National Science Foundation.