School of Medicine

The American Diabetes Association announced that Janet B. McGill, MD, a professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, will receive the organization’s 2022 Outstanding Physician Clinician in Diabetes Award.

A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard suggests that women who get recurrent urinary tract infections may be caught in a vicious cycle in which antibiotics given to eradicate one infection predispose them to develop another.

Kenneth M. Murphy, MD, PhD, the Eugene Opie First Centennial Professor of Pathology & Immunology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for T cell research.

Qin Liu, associate professor at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research on respiratory allergies.

Researchers from the Washington University Center for the Study of Itch and Sensory Disorders have identified a specific neuropeptide and a neural circuit that transmit pleasant touch from the skin to the brain. The findings eventually may help scientists better understand and treat disorders characterized by touch avoidance and impaired social development.

Research led by the School of Medicine has demonstrated that analyzing synthetic data generated from real COVID-19 patients accurately replicates the results of the same analyses conducted on the real patient data. The school has been a national leader in deploying and evaluating technology for the production of synthetic data, which is key for data-sharing collaborations.

The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs presented outstanding mentor awards to Alexxai Kravitz, James Stroud and John Russell at the recent annual Postdoc Symposium.

Stephen T. Oh, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and of pathology and immunology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.46 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for molecular hematology training.

Stuart A. Kornfeld, MD, the David C. and Betty Farrell Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine, has received the 2022 Roscoe O. Brady Award for Innovation and Accomplishment from the WORLDSymposium, a research conference dedicated to lysosomal diseases.

Three of four blood tests used to identify people in early stages of Alzheimer’s disease perform differently in Black individuals compared to white individuals, according to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine. Such differences may put Black patients at risk of misdiagnosis.