School of Medicine

The Society for Research in Psychopathology has awarded its Joseph Zubin Lifetime Achievement Award to WashU’s Deanna Barch in recognition of her lifetime contributions to the understanding of the field.

Alex Holehouse at the School of Medicine, along with collaborators at Wageningen University and Research and the University of Toronto, received a three-year $1.1 million grant from Human Frontier Science Program to study disordered proteins.

David S. Leonard, MD, an associate professor of otolaryngology, has been selected to lead the Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine.

WashU’s Deana Barch will use a $753,181 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to better understand healthy neurodevelopment.

Gut microbiome pioneer Jeffrey Gordon, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine, is the 2022 Senior Scientist Winner of the Innovators in Science Award. The award recognizes his outstanding contributions to the field of gastroenterology.

Carolina B. López (right) and Christina L. Stallings, both professors of molecular microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine, have been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology in recognition of their scientific achievements and original contributions that have advanced the field of microbiology.

The Department of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine has named pediatricians Jason Newland, MD, and Cassandra “Casey” M. Pruitt, MD, to the newly created roles of vice chair of community health and strategic planning, and vice chair of outpatient health, respectively.

Joseph P. Culver, the Sherwood Moore Professor of Radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at the School of Medicine, has been named director of the Biophotonics Research Center in the Division of Radiological Sciences. 

Douglas L. Mann, MD, the Ada L. Steininger Professor of Cardiology at the School of Medicine, has received the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) 2022 Distinguished Scientist Award in the translational domain category.

Four physician-scientists at Washington University School of Medicine have been elected members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation in recognition of original, creative and independent investigations in the clinical or allied sciences of medicine.