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PARC wins renewed funding for photosynthetic research
Sid Hastings/WUSTL PhotosBob Blankenship, PhD, director of PARC and the Lucille P. Markey Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, announcing at an...
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Fatal cell malfunction ID’d in Huntington’s disease
Robert BostonHiroko Yano, PhD, right, led a team of researchers that learned how the fatal inherited disorder Huntington’s disease kills brain cells. Co-author Albert Kim, MD, PhD, also is...
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Eghtesady named inaugural Emerson Chair in Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
Mike MccartyFrom left, St. Louis Children’s Hospital President Joan Magruder; Kim Eghtesady; Pirooz Eghtesady; Kathy Button Bell, Emerson’s vice president and chief marketing officer; and Timothy...
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Parents of autistic kids often have autistic traits
Studying children with autism and their parents, researchers have found that when a child has autism, his or her parents are more likely to have autistic traits than parents who don’t have a child with...
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Poet Mary Jo Bang receives Berlin Prize Fellowship
Bang Award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang, professor of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of 25 recipients of a 2014-15 Berlin Prize Fellowship.The American...
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Those with episodic amnesia are not ‘stuck in time,’ says philosopher Carl...
In 1981, a motorcycle accident left Toronto native Kent Cochrane with severe brain damage and dramatically impaired episodic memory. Following the accident, Cochrane could no longer remember events...
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Researchers hone in on way to predict aggressiveness of oral cancer
Robert BostonRavindra Uppaluri (right) led a team that developed a preliminary diagnostic test that identifies aggressive oral tumors. Michael D. Onken (left) and Ashley E. Winkler are co-authors of...
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Glaucoma drug helps restore vision loss linked to obesity
Robert BostonWorking with colleagues at 38 centers nationwide, Washington University neuro-ophthalmologist Gregory P. Van Stavern, MD, has found that combining a glaucoma drug with a weight-loss...
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Some aggressive cancers may respond to anti-inflammatory drugs
Raleigh KladneyA mouse mammary gland missing the tumor suppressor p53 shows expression of ARF (green), now known for a backup role in protecting cells from becoming cancerous. If both p53 and ARF are...
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Dispatches from the Horn of Africa
Photos courtesy of J. LowellThis baboon and her infant are native to Djibouti in Africa, where Jeffrey A. Lowell is deployed as a U.S. Navy surgeon. Jeffrey A. Lowell, MD, a professor of surgery and of...
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Matava recognized as a top knee surgeon
Matthew J. Matava, MD, has been recognized as one of the top knee surgeons in North America by Orthopedics This Week, a newsletter for professionals in the field. The publication surveyed leaders in...
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Nichols elected to Royal Society
Nichols Colin Nichols, PhD, the Carl F. Cori Professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been elected to the Royal Society, an honorary English organization equivalent to...
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Happy July 4th weekend
Because of the holiday, the Record will not be published Friday, July 4. For the latest WUSTL news, visit news.wustl.edu. The Record staff wishes everyone a safe and happy July 4th weekend!
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College Prep Program’s inaugural class comes together as a ‘community of...
Marques Davis of University City High School liked learning about solar panels. Markell Lomax of Lift for Life Academy was wowed by the slam poetry performance. And Zuan Le of McKinley Classical...
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Fair Saint Louis reminder
A number of operations at Washington University in St. Louis will experience disruptions as the 34th annual Fair Saint Louis takes place Thursday through Saturday, July 3-5, in Forest Park. The event...
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Washington University’s Joseph Jez is one of 15 ‘million dollar professors’
Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotosNewly designated HHMI Professor Joseph Jez, PhD, an associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, works in his lab with Ashley...
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Bullock named the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor in Urology
Mark BeavenArnold Bullock, MD, newly endowed as the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Urology, is pictured with Larry J. Shapiro, MD, executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the...
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Youth regularly receive pro-marijuana tweets
Weed Tweets @stillblazingthoWashington University researchers found that during an eight-month period in 2013, a marijuana-related Twitter account sent out more than 2,200 messages to some 1 million...
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Molecular scissors help viruses break out of cells
Phyllis Hanson/WUSTL PhotosScientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have snapped the first detailed images of the molecular scissors that let viruses such as HIV bud from...
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Linehan named Neidorff and Packman Professor
Mark BeavenDavid C. Linehan, MD, addresses the gathering at his installation as the inaugural Neidorff Family and Robert C. Packman Professor.David C. Linehan, MD, has been named the inaugural...
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