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In our lifetime: the race to outpace Alzheimer’s
The “In Our Lifetime” video series from WashU Medicine explores Alzheimer’s research and the hope it provides to millions around the world through the eyes of four participants.
Blood proteins reveal effects of Alzheimer’s drug (Links to an external site)
Researchers find changes during anti-amyloid treatment that may inform clinical decision-making.
Gut microbiome features predict devastating disease affecting preemies (Links to an external site)
Findings could help pave way for earlier intervention.
Mental health care before, after surgery improves recovery in older adults (Links to an external site)
Clinical trial supports adding mental health coaching, medication cleanup to routine pre-surgical care.
Liver transplants offer new hope for late-stage colorectal cancer
WashU Medicine transplant and cancer specialists transform outlook for some patients with limited treatment options.
Key path to Alzheimer’s-like brain damage starts outside the brain (Links to an external site)
Study finds in mice that immune cells that drive neurodegeneration originate in body’s lymph nodes.
Emke, Dufault, Wyatt to lead new precision education initiative
Project aims to use data analytics to personalize paths from med school to residency.
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Choi, Ferraro receive grants from hematology society
Francesca Ferraro, MD, PhD, and Jaebok Choi, PhD, in the Division of Oncology will each receive $150,000 from the American Society of Hematology to study leukemia treatments.
New discovery may point to clues about how head and neck cancers spread
A research team led by Sidharth Puram, MD, identified a previously unknown population of aggressive tumor cells in difficult-to-treat head and neck cancers.
Stone awarded $3.7 million to study rare metabolic disorder
Stephen Stone, MD, was awarded a $3.7 million NIH grant to advance research into a rare metabolic disorder.
$3.4 million grant aims to study how fentanyl disrupts the brain’s locus coeruleus system
Jordan McCall, PhD, was awarded $3.4 million by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to examine how fentanyl alters the brain’s main alert and stress center and drives relapse to opioid use.
NIH grant supports study of gut microbes and blood cell production
A collaboration led by infectious diseases researcher Megan Baldridge, MD, PhD, could lead to new options for vulnerable patients to maintain healthy blood counts.