School of Medicine

Kenneth M. Ludmerer, MD, professor of medicine and the Mabel Dorn Reeder Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, has received the 2022 John C. Gienapp Distinguished Service Award.

David Alan Hunstad, MD, professor of pediatrics and of molecular microbiology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for UTI research.

Nine faculty members at Washington University School of Medicine have been elected fellows of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Fellowship in IDSA is considered among the highest honors in the field of infectious diseases.

Mohamed A. Zayed, MD, PhD, associate professor of surgery and of radiology, received a four-year $2.1 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Ramakrishna Kommagani, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $1.9 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research endometriosis.

COVID-19 brought masks and with them, a host of questions about how they affect our day-to-day communications, including how well people wearing masks are understood.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have identified a drug compound that makes pancreatic cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy.

Richard W. Gross, PhD, MD, professor at the School of Medicine and in Arts & Sciences, received a four-year $2.3 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research bioenergetics.

Mohamed Mahjoub, associate professor of at the School of Medicine, received a three-year $1.8 million grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for kidney disease research.

Steven J. Mennerick at the School of Medicine received a five-year $2.3 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).