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