Gut bacteria of malnourished children benefit from key elements in therapeutic food (Links to an external site)
A clinical trial reported in 2021 and conducted by a team of researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Dhaka, Bangladesh, showed that a newly designed therapeutic food aimed at repairing malnourished children’s underdeveloped gut microbiomes was superior to a widely used standard […]
Clues to preventing Alzheimer’s come from patient who, despite genetics, evaded disease (Links to an external site)
Alzheimer’s disease has plagued one large Colombian family for generations, striking down half of its members in the prime of life. But one member of that family evaded what had seemed would be fate: Despite inheriting the genetic defect that caused her relatives to develop dementia in their 40s, she stayed cognitively healthy into her […]
Photoacoustic imaging improves diagnostic accuracy of cancerous ovarian lesions (Links to an external site)
Researchers and clinicians at Washington University in St. Louis have found a way to improve the standard of care diagnostic accuracy of potentially cancerous lesions in the ovaries and adnexal regions, or the fallopian tubes, by incorporating functional biomarkers with photoacoustic imaging, a technique that illuminates tissue with near-infrared light at specific wavelengths that are […]
Dr. Robert Schreiber receives scientific innovator award (Links to an external site)
Robert D. Schreiber, PhD, an internationally recognized scientist in cancer immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named the 2024 Senior Scientist Winner of the Innovators in Science Award in Cancer Immunology. The award is given by the New York Academy of Sciences and sponsored by Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Schreiber, the […]
P&I researchers among those ‘highly cited’
Clarivate, an analytics company, has named more than 50 Washington University in St. Louis researchers to its Highly Cited Researchers 2023 list including several members of the Department of Pathology and Immunology. Researchers from Pathology and Immunology highlighted in Clarivate’s list include: Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list, which was established in 2001, identifies scientists and […]
Researchers identify way to block alphavirus infection (Links to an external site)
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found an innovative way to block infection by a variety of alphaviruses, a group of mosquito-borne viruses that can cause joint and brain infections in people. The study, led by Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD, the Herbert S. Gasser Professor of Medicine, and Daved […]
Dr. Sarah D. Ackerman named 2023 Young Investigator grantee (Links to an external site)
Sarah D. Ackerman, Gabor Egervari, MD, PhD and Tao Xie, all of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, have been named 2023 Young Investigator grantees by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. This year’s funding will support 150 promising early-career scientists across the field of neuropsychiatry with innovative ideas in mental health research. The two-year grant is expected […]
Dr. Hussein Sultan wins 2023 Presidential Travel Award from SITC
Hussein Sultan, PhD, Instructor in Pathology and Immunology, received a Presidential Travel Award from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC). As part of the award, Dr. Sultan was one of four early-career investigators selected to give a presentation at the SITC 38th Annual Meeting in San Diego. Dr. Sultan’s talk showed that high dose […]