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Zorumski honored with faculty achievement award

Charles F. Zorumski, MD, received WashU’s 2025 Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award for his pioneering efforts in understanding the neural basis of psychiatric illnesses

December 1, 2025

Charles Zorumski, MD,

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