Gut bacterium supports growth in infants with severe acute malnutrition (Links to an external site)
About 18 million children under age 5 suffer from severe acute malnutrition, and over 3 million children die from it each year. Treatment with high-calorie supplemental foods and antibiotics can prevent deaths, but these interventions often have limited impact on the long-term effects of severe acute malnutrition, such as persistent stunted growth, disrupted immune function […]
Gordon receives scientific innovator award (Links to an external site)
Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named the 2022 Senior Scientist Winner of the Innovators in Science Award administered by the New York Academy of Sciences and sponsored by Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
2022 Ellis Benson Award Announced
Dr. Melanie Yarbrough is the recipient of the 2022 Ellis Benson Award, given by the Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists (ACLPS) in recognition of her work in advancing diagnostic methods for infectious diseases such as bloodstream and urinary tract infections. The Ellis Benson Award is the premier award of ACLPS to a young faculty member in […]
CDC director to speak about pandemic March 3 on Medical Campus (Links to an external site)
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, will participate in a conversation about the pandemic Thursday, March 3, from 8 to 9 a.m. at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The virtual event, available via livestream, will be geared toward faculty, staff, students and trainees on the […]
Vice Chair of Faculty Development Named
Following departmental strategic planning, the Pathology & Immunology Office of Faculty Development (OFD) was founded in 2020. OFD supports our departmental core values (excellence, respect, inclusion, and diversity), and the mission of the OFD is to support a thriving and diverse department with professionally happy and healthy faculty who are productive, well recognized, and respected […]
Antibodies improve in quality for months after COVID-19 vaccination (Links to an external site)
For at least six months after COVID-19 vaccination, antibodies produced by immune cells become steadily more formidable and more precisely targeted against the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a study of the antibody response to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Researchers unravel omicron’s secrets to better understand COVID-19 (Links to an external site)
When South African scientists announced in November that they had identified a new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19, they also reported two worrying details: one, that this new variant’s genome was strikingly different from that of any previous variant, containing dozens of mutations compared with the original virus that emerged in 2019; and […]
Grossman, Henderson honored by international blood association (Links to an external site)
The Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies recently honored Brenda J. Grossman, MD, and Jeffrey P. Henderson, MD, PhD, noted researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, with a 2021 President’s Award.