The Department of Pathology and Immunology at WashU Medicine is pleased to announce 21 physicians have been named Castle Connolly Top Doctors in 2025. “We congratulate our faculty for receiving this distinct honor. The recognition of these physicians is a testament to the exceptional quality of our entire faculty, whose work benefits patients across the […]
Author: Gabrielle
Letter from the Chair
Dear colleagues, Happy New Year! 2025 brings along new resolutions, new goals, and a heavy dose of winter storm. I want to thank our faculty, resident & fellow physicians, and staffs, who supported our clinical mission during the recent winter storms. Your dedication is a testimony of the outstanding quality of care we provide to […]
Probiotic delivers anticancer drug to the gut (Links to an external site)
Researchers at WashU Medicine shrink gastrointestinal tumors in mice using a yeast probiotic to deliver immunotherapy to the gut, offering a potentially novel strategy to target hard-to-reach gut cancers.
Healthy brains suppress inappropriate immune responses (Links to an external site)
Researchers at WashU Medicine have found a process by which the brain guards against attack by the immune system. In mice with multiple sclerosis, such “guardian” proteins that train the immune system were drastically depleted, and replenishing them improved symptoms, according to a study in Nature.
Your diet can change your immune system — here’s how (Links to an external site)
Many laboratories are interested in harnessing the immune system to treat one of today’s most pressing health concerns: obesity. Steven Van Dyken, an immunologist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, has been studying an immune response usually triggered in response to allergens and parasites, to see whether it could help to regulate metabolism.
Celebrating Our Faculty’s Contributions to Nobel-Winning Research
The Department of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University in St. Louis is proud to announce that two of our faculty members, Joseph Corbo, MD, PhD and Gautam Dantas, PhD have played significant roles in the groundbreaking research that contributed to this year’s Nobel Prize recipients in Physiology or Medicine and Chemistry. Joseph Corbo’s Collaboration […]
$12 million grant aimed at probing how vaccines induce lasting immunity (Links to an external site)
Researchers at WashU Medicine have received a $12 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to identify the factors that are responsible for long-lasting immunity against disease.
Huang named head of pathology & immunology (Links to an external site)
Eric J. Huang, MD, PhD, a leader in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases, will head the Department of Developmental Pathology & Immunology at WashU Medicine beginning in January.
Novel immunotherapy improves recovery from spinal cord injury (Links to an external site)
Blake essay recognized by Lasker Foundation (Links to an external site)
Kevin Blake, PhD, scientific editor in the Department of Pathology & Immunology’s Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been honored for an essay he wrote titled “Missing Microbiomes: Global Underrepresentation Restricts Who Research Will Benefit.” The piece calls for scientists to increase representation of understudied populations […]
2024 Univants Team of Distinction
The Department of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine is proud to announce that Vahid Azimi, MD and Stephen Roper, PhD were part of a multidisciplinary team that was recently named a Univants of Healthcare Excellence Team of Distinction by Abbott. The team sought to reduce the barrier in prenatal care for black […]
Kathleen Byrnes, MD, FASCPCM named 40 Under Forty honoree by ASCP
Kathleen Byrnes, MD, FASCPCM, Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology & Immunology, has been named a 40 Under Forty honoree by the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP). ASCP’s program “recognizes members under the age of 40 for their achievements and leadership qualities that are making an impact on pathology and laboratory medicine.” Kathleen Byrnes, MD, […]