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July 6, 2020
Study to examine social media’s effects on stress during COVID-19 pandemic
National Science Foundation grant funds analysis, Twitter-based interventions.
News Release
June 25, 2020
Neidorffs commit $5 million to honor distinguished clinicians
Gift to establish endowed professorships recognizing Robert C. Packman, John S. Daniels.
News Release
June 24, 2020
Ferguson receives award from blindness-prevention organization
Stein Innovation Award provides funding aimed at understanding visual system.
National Leaders
May 26, 2020
$13.7 million to further adolescent brain development study
Grant from National Institute on Drug Abuse to extend landmark study.
News Release
May 18, 2020
Podcast: Global study tests chloroquine to protect health workers from COVID-19
Trial led by top academic institutions around the world, including School of Medicine.
Podcast, Show Me the Science
May 18, 2020
Global study to test malaria drug to protect health workers from COVID-19
COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator to fund international trial of chloroquine.
News Release
May 16, 2020
Studying adversity’s effects on children’s brains
Gift will expand research examining effects of environmental stress on brain development.
Outlook Magazine
February 6, 2020
Abu-Amer named J. Albert Key Professor
Professorship endows research into causes of inflammation and related skeletal problems.
News Release
December 3, 2019
Halting opioid abuse aim of several grants from NIH, CDC
Dozens of grants awarded nationwide in search of answers to addiction, deaths.
News Release
October 29, 2019
Personal bequest to benefit the underserved
Native St. Louisan Lee Kling is thinking about his city’s needs now and in the future.
Outlook Magazine
October 28, 2019
New antidepressants on horizon
Neuroactive steroid drugs result from Taylor Family Institute, pharma collaboration.
News Release
October 4, 2019
Cipriano, Gerull receive grant to study gender factors in orthopedics training
Awarded by American Medical Association Women Physicians Section and AMA Foundation.
National Leaders
October 1, 2019
$4.6 million supports increasing diversity in biomedical research
Early-career faculty from across U.S. offered training, mentorship on Medical Campus.
News Release
September 19, 2019
Childhood obesity in low-income Missouri families aim of CDC grant
$3.7 million will help evaluate Family-based Behavioral Treatment.
News Release
September 17, 2019
School of Medicine receives award to develop physician-scientists
Burroughs Wellcome Fund institutional award aims to boost number of doctors who also conduct research.
News Release
September 16, 2019
McNeill named Larry J. Shapiro and Carol-Ann Uetake-Shapiro Professor
Recognized for contributions to developmental biology.
News Release
September 9, 2019
$7.5 million to fund pioneering approaches to respiratory disease
New grants support drug discovery for asthma, COPD, related cancers.
News Release
August 26, 2019
Seed funding
Research investment targets lesser-known form of cancer.
Outlook Magazine
July 29, 2019
Extending human life
Two new centers focus on chronic diseases of aging.
Outlook Magazine
July 23, 2019
Covey named Taylor Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry
Professorship supports research in new treatment strategies for psychiatric illness.
News Release
May 29, 2019
$9.5 million aimed at detecting autism earlier in childhood
Multicenter grant funds infant brain imaging at Washington University and other centers.
News Release
May 24, 2019
Metcalfe gift supports study of adversity’s effects on children’s brains
Work will aid effort to understand role of nature versus nurture.
News Release
April 10, 2019
$10 million gift aimed at improving treatments for mental illness
Depression is primary focus of research.
News Release
April 8, 2019
Centene and Washington University collaborate to advance personalized medicine research
Partnership to focus on Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, diabetes, obesity.
News Release, Video