School of Medicine

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.

Washington University School of Medicine researchers, studying mice, have developed a method of stem cell transplantation that does not require radiation or chemotherapy. The study opens the door to safer stem cell transplantation.

Aristeidis Sotiras, assistant professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use machine learning techniques in Alzheimer’s research.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have found that the drug fluvoxamine has been shown, in a pair of studies conducted on two continents, to be an effective treatment for people sick with COVID-19.

Deborah J. Lenschow, MD, PhD, professor at Washington University School of Medicine, has been named an Innovation Fund Investigator by The Pew Charitable Trusts.