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December 5, 2025
$5 million for brain development and Alzheimer’s degeneration study
NIH grant will fund neuroimaging research on mirroring between early brain growth and old age.
News Release
December 3, 2025
Latest Transcend Initiative grants awarded
Funding is one example of how research office supports faculty.
News Release
October 8, 2025
WashU researchers honored with NIH Director’s Awards
Three investigators recognized by high-risk, high-reward research program.
News Release
September 23, 2025
$5 million funds innovation of more-potent opioid overdose antidote
NIH funding aims to accelerate drug development timeline for enhanced version of naloxone.
News Release
September 16, 2025
$4.87 million grant supports development of sepsis diagnostic device
Fast, precise tool could offer personalized critical care to ICU patients, military personnel.
News Release
August 22, 2025
Research explores genetics underlying immune system disorders
$12 million grant from NIH supports effort to understand, diagnose immune deficiencies.
News Release
July 22, 2025
Transformative $15 million gift bolsters WashU Medicine’s physician-scientist training program
Medical Scientist Training Program named in honor of P. Roy Vagelos.
Medical Campus & Community, News Release
June 13, 2025
$12 million grant funds studies of role of genes in autism, similar diagnoses
Bank of specialized mouse models will deepen understanding of neurodevelopmental, psychiatric conditions.
News Release
May 23, 2025
WashU Medicine expands disabilities curriculum
Medical students will have more opportunities to learn about clinical accommodations for patients with disabilities.
Medical Campus & Community
April 24, 2025
Research explores neurobiology underlying common depression symptom
$6.5 million grant from Wellcome Trust supports effort to understand, treat chronic loss of energy.
News Release
March 7, 2025
$4.5 million supports pathbreaking neuroimmunology research
Grant funds WashU Medicine’s pursuit of new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.
News Release
February 20, 2025
Undiagnosed diseases clinic expands outreach to underserved communities
Collaboration with St. Louis Integrated Health Network aims to help more people with mysterious illnesses.
News Release
February 14, 2025
WashU Medicine launches center for rare diseases
New effort unites vast rare disease network to advance research, therapies.
News Release
February 6, 2025
WashU Medicine and Weizmann Institute of Science establish joint research program
New collaboration supports research to understand the role of microbes and the immune and nervous systems in human health and disease.
Medical Campus & Community
January 24, 2025
NIH awards $10 million to study human virome
WashU Medicine labs contribute to a new collaborative program designed to demystify the human body’s resident viruses.
News Release
January 21, 2025
$14 million supports work to diversify human genome research
NIH renews funding for ambitious Human Pangenome Reference Sequencing Project.
News Release
December 16, 2024
$10.8 million grant supports cutting-edge leukemia research
NIH renews prestigious program for blood cancer research at WashU Medicine.
News Release
December 12, 2024
Gratitude inspires generous support for WashU Medicine’s neurosurgery department
In recognition of $50 million gift from Andrew and Barbara Taylor, department has been named the Taylor Family Department of Neurosurgery .
News Release
December 10, 2024
WashU Medicine reaches all-time high in NIH funding
NIH grants recognize the quality and significance of WashU Medicine research in enabling life-changing advances in medicine.
News Release
November 26, 2024
Siteman Cancer Center’s new outpatient building named in honor of Gary C. Werths
Generous gift to WashU Medicine supports cancer research, medical student scholarships.
News Release
October 16, 2024
WashU Medicine celebrates first R01 recipients
Event honored scientists who received their first R01 research grants from the National Institutes of Health.
Medical Campus & Community
October 8, 2024
Camacho honored by NIH for research on emotional neurodevelopment
Neuroscientist selected for High-Risk, High-Reward program.
Medical Campus & Community, News Release
September 30, 2024
$12 million grant to research how vaccines induce lasting immunity
Source: The Microbiologist
August 9, 2024
Mahajan named Urologic Surgery Research Professor
Pioneering scientist has developed new approaches to understanding, treating prostate cancer.
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