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Gereau named Brown professor of anesthesiology
Mark BeavenLarry J. Shapiro, MD, (left), executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, congratulates Robert W. Gereau IV, PhD, at his installation as the Dr. Seymour...
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Workshop held to help recruit women, minorities
PHOTOS BY ROBERT BOSTON(Above) In her lab, Kelle Moley, MD, holds a gel of liver samples from mice that lack a protein that transports sugar to the liver. The missing protein causes problems in...
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Recognizing Outstanding Faculty Mentors
Sid Hastings/WUSTL PhotosFiona Marshall, PhD, professor of archaeology in Arts & Sciences, accepts an Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award from Diana Fridberg, one of Marshall's graduate students,...
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New study examines disparities in Medicaid spending on children in the...
In the new health-care climate of the federal Affordable Care Act and efforts to expand Medicaid to accommodate more individuals and children, the need to closely examine ways to best use government...
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NF symposium to focus on tumor disorders
A diagnosis of neurofibromatosis (NF) introduces many uncertainties to children and their parents. Patients affected by these conditions are prone to developing benign and malignant tumors as well as...
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WUSTL team wins People’s Choice Award at 2014 Rube Goldberg
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Students win Breast Cancer Startup Challenge
Fernando SandovalWhitney Grither, an MD/PhD student at the School of Medicine, accepts her team’s award at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in March. Also...
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Genome regions once mislabeled ‘junk’ linked to heart failure
Robert BostonJeanne Nerbonne, PhD, led a team that found a link between human heart failure and sections of the genome once referred to as junk DNA.Large sections of the genome that were once referred...
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Carter appointed to innovation and entrepreneurship leadership post
CarterDedric Carter, PhD, has been appointed to the newly created position of associate provost and associate vice chancellor for innovation and entrepreneurship at Washington University in St....
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Animal behaviorist Temple Grandin, H&R Block founder Henry Bloch among six to...
Washington University in St. Louis will award six honorary degrees during the university’s 153rd Commencement May 16.During the ceremony, which will begin at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle on the...
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University makes major solar commitment
James Byard/WUSTL PhotosA section of one of the solar arrays installed on the roof of North Campus. Click here for a high-res version. Washington University in St. Louis is moving forward with a bold...
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Gordon wins Passano Foundation Award
Gordon Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, director of the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, has won the 2014 Passano Foundation Award for his pioneering studies demonstrating how the trillions of...
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Four myths about privacy
Richards Many privacy discussions follow a similar pattern, and involve the same kinds of arguments. It’s commonplace to hear that privacy is dead, that people — especially kids — don’t care about...
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Damiano named chief of cardiothoracic surgery
Ralph J. Damiano Jr., MD, an internationally known cardiac surgeon, has been named chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.Damiano The...
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LaTanya Buck appointed director of new Center for Diversity and Inclusion
BuckLaTanya N. Buck, most recently director of the Cross Cultural Center (CCC) at Saint Louis University, has been appointed director of the newly created Center for Diversity and Inclusion at...
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Socioeconomic factors may make Medicare’s hospital readmissions data more useful
Barnes-Jewish HospitalSome hospitals facing financial penalties from Medicare for readmitting too many patients soon after discharge have said they are being unfairly penalized. Hospitals that treat a...
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WUSTL students ‘print’ pink prosthetic arm for teen girl
Courtesy photoWashington University in St. Louis seniors (from left) Kranti Peddada, Kendall Gretsch and Henry Lather designed and built a robotic prosthetic arm for 13-year-old Sydney Kendall (center...
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WUSTL undergraduate sells Farmplicity, startup that began as class project
http://youtu.be/HNvdBQJ-CZ0Washington University undergraduate student Jolijt Tamanaha discusses Farmplicity with Edward Domain, host of the Domain Tech Report on Techli.com.For most rising college...
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Mouse study offers new clues to cognitive decline
Robert BostonShin-ichiro Imai, MD, PhD, (left) and Liana Roberts Stein, PhD, showed that certain types of brain cells may be critically dependent upon one specific energy source called NAD. NAD...
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$32 million NIH grant funds study of multipurpose infection fighter
Robert BostonHerbert W. Virgin IV, MD, PhD, is principal investigator for a new research collaborative that aims to develop drugs that can simultaneously fight multiple forms of infection. The project...
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