School of Medicine

The Brown School, the Institute for Public Health’s Center for Dissemination and Implementation and the School of Medicine’s Infectious Disease Division have launched the Infectious Disease Dissemination and Implementation Science (IDDI) Initiative.

Michael L. Gross, professor in Arts & Sciences and at the School of Medicine, received a $31,500 subcontract from GenNext to support their NIH-funded project.

Denise E. Wilfley, professor at the School of Medicine and in Arts & Sciences, received a five-year $2.6 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a training program in obesity and cardiovascular disease.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Washington University is developing a machine-learning-based early warning system to predict cancer patients’ deterioration and improve patient outcomes.

Ramsey Hachem, the Tracey C. Marshall – Dr. Elbert P. Trulock Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine, received a $2.2 million research grant from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Jennifer K. Lodge, vice chancellor for research at Washington University and the David T. Blasingame Professor, will leave the university at the end of the year. Lodge will be joining Duke University as vice president for research and innovation in January.

Colin Eugene Kluender, a graduate student in the Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences, died Nov. 4 in his hometown of Milwaukee. He was 26. A memorial service will be held 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19, at Holmes Lounge.

Zhoufeng Chen, at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.5 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for neuroscience research.

A team of researchers led by Hong Chen has developed a noninvasive diagnostic method that may one day replace tissue biopsies with a simple blood test.

Naresha Saligrama, assistant professor of neurology at the School of Medicine, received a three-year $1.1 million grant from the Children’s Discovery Institute for pediatric onset multiple sclerosis research.