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News, profiles and features
High school students get PRIMEd for healthcare careers
Summer program exposes St. Louis learners to health sciences and clinical professions.
Tool to predict brain swelling earns FDA Breakthrough Device designation (Links to an external site)
First device to identify dangerous stroke complication developed at WashU Medicine.
New approach to designing drugs supercharges cancer medication (Links to an external site)
Shape-shifting drug hits tumors in multiple ways, improves outcomes in mice.
Dementia rising across Latino populations, multidecade study finds (Links to an external site)
Cases climbed in Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico over two decades, bucking a downward trend seen in many wealthy nations.
Global consortium launches AI tools to accelerate Alzheimer’s research, treatments (Links to an external site)
Founding members include WashU Medicine, pharmaceutical companies, philanthropic groups and others.
Vertical expansion of research facility earns LEED Silver certification (Links to an external site)
Sustainable design of BJC Institute of Health building on the medical campus recognized with environmental award.
Honors and awards
Colditz, Jiang receive Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
WashU Medicine researchers developed AI tool that refines breast-cancer risk prediction.
WashU Medicine’s Ritchey receives Gloria White Award (Links to an external site)
Veteran lab manager dedicated to advancing research on stem cell therapies.
WashU in top 10 universities for translating discoveries into real-world solutions (Links to an external site)
New Cure Innovation Index cites strengths in research, institutional support for commercializing biomedical advances made in WashU labs.
WashU Medicine faculty elected to Association of American Physicians (Links to an external site)
Pulmonologist Steven Brody and neurologists Jin-Moo Lee and Timothy Miller recognized for excellence in biomedical research.
Vermette named Macy Faculty Scholar
Physician-educator aims to prevent burnout among medical residents.
Bateman and Holtzman receive 2026 American Innovator Award (Links to an external site)
WashU Medicine neurologists honored for blood-based Alzheimer’s diagnostic test.
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