The Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research has announced that Alex Evers, MD, the Henry E. Mallinckrodt Professor of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, will receive the foundation’s 2024 Mentoring Excellence in Research Award. Recipients of the international award must be nominated by former mentees who are now in research, teaching or […]
Device delivers naloxone upon sensing drop in respiration, animal study shows
Mouse study shows engineered immune cell therapy protects damaged neurons
Findings could point to new strategies to treat Alzheimer’s
Detailed blueprint of nerve cells’ dramatic changes could help identify ways to heal spinal cord damage
Washington University School of Medicine faculty members Mark Rutherford and Yang E. Li have won grants from St. Baldrick’s Foundation to study pediatric cancers.
The one-year awards promote collaborative research within the university
The research by Phil Bayly’s lab makes cover of Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
A study in mice by researchers at the School of Medicine indicates that brain injury can lead to brain tumors in susceptible individuals. For this study, they used mice that model people with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a genetic disorder that causes brain tumors. The study showed that molecules released by injured neurons set off […]
Grant to support research on neurodegenerative disorders
Sarah D. Ackerman, PhD, Gabor Egervari, MD, PhD and Tao Xie, PhD, 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 […]
Valeria Cavalli, PhD, the Robert E. and Louise F. Dunn Professor of Biomedical Research in the Department of Neuroscience at Washington University, has received a grant of more than $400,000 to understand the origins of hypersensitivity in Fragile X syndrome (FXS). This genetic disorder, which accounts for the most cases of autism by a known […]
Key steps leading to such accumulation identified; could inform new therapeutic approaches
Mechanical engineers find brain’s vulnerability to head motion depends on direction and frequency, not just impact strength
When the human head experiences any kind of movement — from nodding yes or no to heading a soccer ball or being jolted in a car crash — the brain moves inside the skull, leading to deformation of the tissue. Such deformations are key to understanding traumatic brain injury but are challenging to study since […]
Grant will support research on brain plasticity
Martha Bagnall, PhD, an assistant professor of neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, received a $1.9 million R01 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to map neuronal connections in the zebrafish spinal cord. The Bagnall lab studies motor control […]
Findings point to brain areas that integrate planning, purpose, physiology, behavior, movement
The neurologist and physician scientist at Washington University in St. Louis provided insight on the general dieting strategies patients with multiple sclerosis should take as more information becomes available. [WATCH TIME: 6 minutes]
New imaging technique reveals circulation patterns in developing brain
Jonathan D. Cooper, PhD, a professor of pediatrics, of genetics and of neurology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, received two grants totaling $2.55 million over five years from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Cooper will study enzyme replacement therapy as a possible […]
Four years after Washington University in St. Louis researchers detected a possible link between risk for Alzheimer’s disease and the appearance of the eye’s retina, a $10.3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is expanding the effort to understand that connection. Gregory P. Van Stavern, MD, […]
Successful cancer treatment approach extended to autoimmune disease
Findings in mice suggest new therapeutic approach to Alzheimer’s, other age-related diseases
Funding from NIH HEAL Initiative
Research into how key molecule triggers axon death may lead to new therapies
Song Hu, Yong Wang team up to find quantitative biomarkers for clinical pain management
Enzyme replacement therapy, in mice and sheep, slowed brain degeneration
Finding therapies for fragile X may depend on understanding the many ways protein’s loss affects brain
$3.5M grant from NIH
Philip Bayly, collaborators to use imaging, modeling to look at waves in the brain
Two-year $300,000 grant
Improves insulin secretion, lowers blood sugar
Five-year $2 million grant from NIH
Faculty members honored for ‘highly prolific spirit of innovation’
At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting Oct. 1, numerous faculty members were appointed or promoted with tenure or granted tenure, effective that day. Promotion with tenure Su-Hsin Chang, PhD, to associate professor of surgery (public health services) at the School of Medicine; Milan G. Chheda, MD, to associate professor of medicine […]
Targeting support cells with cholesterol drug could improve recovery after spinal cord injury
Complements efforts of Taylor Family Institute to develop treatments for psychiatric illness
Research program investigates link between viral infections, memory problems
Immune cells from skull bone marrow guard the brain, spinal cord