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Physician, educator Amjad Musleh mentors aspiring physicians in compassionate care (Links to an external site)
Musleh meets with students individually and in small groups to navigate challenges and celebrate successes.
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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.
Low-carb diet delivers added liver benefits beyond weight loss (Links to an external site)
Clinical trial finds among several diets, ketogenic plan yields greatest boost to liver, metabolic health.
FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer’s disease (Links to an external site)
Biomarker test is based on technology developed at WashU Medicine.
Honors and awards
WashU Medicine faculty elected to American Society for Clinical Investigation
Neurologists Suzanne Schindler and Christopher Smyser and otolaryngologist Sidharth Puram recognized as leaders in academic medicine.
Groves named inaugural Stuart A. Kornfeld Distinguished Professor
Renowned developmental biologist honored for work to understand inner ear development.
Ackerman receives innovation in neuroscience award (Links to an external site)
Neuroscientist poised to study how glia-neuron interactions affect healthy brain aging
Rosengart named inaugural Theodore and Bertha Bryan Professor of Environmental Medicine
Critical care surgeon’s research on sepsis and recovery has advanced care for vulnerable patients.
American Society for Clinical Investigation honors Cao, Mullen (Links to an external site)
Early-career physician-scientists recognized for research achievements
Four named senior members of National Academy of Inventors (Links to an external site)
WashU Medicine researchers among those named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors
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