School of Medicine

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.

Daniel Kerschensteiner, MD, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2 million grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study visual pathways.

Researchers at the School of Medicine were awarded $575.8 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in federal fiscal year 2021, according to the School of Medicine’s 2021 State of the School Report. This is an all-time high for the school.

Two research teams at Washington University — one led by Joyce Balls-Berry; the other led by Darrell Hudson and Ganesh Babulal — have received grants totaling $7 million to advance racial equity in Alzheimer’s disease research.

Samuel Achilefu, the Michel M Ter-Pogossian Professor of Radiology at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $2.2 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research imaging techniques during surgery.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have shown, in a small clinical trial, that pre-activated natural killer cells can help some children and young adults with recurrent acute myeloid leukemia and few other treatment options.

Asthma has been associated with a lowered risk of brain tumors, and researchers at Washington University School of Medicine now think they know why: Immune cells activated under conditions of asthma are less able to promote the growth of brain tumors.

The School of Medicine will begin construction in the spring on a six floor-expansion on top of the Steven & Susan Lipstein BJC Institute of Health building. The addition, estimated to cost $150 million, will include 160,000 square feet of state-of-the-art laboratory space.

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is gearing up for its upcoming accreditation process. School representatives will welcome members of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education to the Medical Campus Feb. 19-22, 2023, as part of the accreditation process.

Washington University in St. Louis faculty from the School of Medicine and the McKelvey School of Engineering have been elected fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction reserved solely for academic inventors.