School of Medicine supports partnership working to end the HIV epidemic by 2030. On Tuesday, December 1, 2020, World AIDS Day, the St. Louis City Department of Health hosted a virtual celebration recognizing the first anniversary of Fast-Track Cities St. Louis and the launch of its new HIV data dashboard. Washington University School of Medicine […]
School of Medicine scientists honored for innovation Neurologist Randall J. Bateman, MD, virologist and immunologist Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD, and microbiologist Scott Hultgren, PhD – all faculty members at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis – have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.
There is an urgent need to better understand the role of innate immunity in relation to the current COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to future pandemics. Dr. Shabaana Khader, professor, Molecular Microbiology, and Dr. Michael S. Avidan, Head of the Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine will moderate and join several international speakers at […]
Grant awards set stage for next seven years of science-driven HIV clinical research. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced the clinical investigators and institutions that will lead four NIH HIV clinical trials networks over the next seven years to conduct the innovative, efficient clinical […]
Brett Heuring, PharmD, pharmacy manager with BJC Home Infusion narrates this patient education video and illustrates how to administer intravenous antibiotics at home. The video reviews the process for performing infusions utilizing IV access and an elastomeric device. Yasir Hamad, MD, assistant professor, ID division, is the medical director outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy, or OPAT, […]
David H. Perlmutter, MD, executive vice chancellor for medical affairs, recently announced several leadership appointments and promotions that will go into effect this year. Dr. Bill Powderly will be appointed Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Sciences. This appointment recognizes Dr. Powderly’s role as Director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) and […]
Other viruses, such as Zika and herpes simplex, replicate in corneal tissue. New findings from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggest the eye’s cornea can resist infection from the novel coronavirus. Although the herpes simplex virus can infect the cornea and spread to other parts of the body in patients […]
A new episode of ‘Show Me the Science’, produced by the Office of Medical Public Affairs at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis , reports on the efforts of infectious diseases specialists and social work researchers to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks among people who are without adequate housing. People without permanent housing may be […]
Julia López, PhD, MPH, LCSW, instructor of medicine, infectious diseases, presented at the American Public Health Association (APHA) 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting and Expo on October 28. The presentation, “Political ideology and sexual behaviors: Does sex partner accumulation matter?” is based on collaborative work with Alexis Duncan, PhD, associate professor of public health, Brown School. […]
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is a testing site for the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson’s phase 3 clinical research study, called the ENSEMBLE trial, to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Janssen’s investigational COVID-19 vaccine candidate, JNJ-78436735, also known as Ad26.COV2.S.
Rachel Presti, MD, PHD, associate professor of medicine is the director of Washington University’s Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Unit and principal investigator for the COVID-19 vaccine trials at Washington University School of Medicine. Sharon Frey, MD, clinical director, Center for Vaccine Development and the Kinsella Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine Professor, associate director of clinical […]
Sebla Kutluay, PhD Christian Shema Mugisha ‘Let’s Meet the Virologists’, hosted by Larissa Thackray, PhD, associate professor of Infectious Diseases, talks in Episode 4 with Sebla Kutluay, PhD, an assistant professor of Molecular Microbiology and in Episode 12 with Christian Shema Mugisha, a Molecular Cell Biology graduate student in the Kutluay lab, about their work […]
Phase 3 trial involves hospitalized patients with moderate to severe disease One of the most vexing aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic is the novel coronavirus’s ability to turn the body’s immune system against the body. After the virus has been cleared from the body, the immune system sometimes continues to hurtle an arsenal of immune […]
The communities of bacteria that live in our digestive tracts help digest food and produce vitamins, protect against pathogens, and promote the healthy functioning of our immune system. But alongside gut bacteria thrives a vast community of viruses, and we know little about their impact on health and disease. Efforts to study the gut viral […]
Research fueled advances that have saved millions of lives The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded Monday, Oct. 5, to three scientists for the discovery of hepatitis C virus, an insidious and deadly blood-borne virus. One of those scientists — virologist Charles M. Rice — conducted his seminal work while on the […]
New podcast showcases the people behind today’s virology headlines As part of an effort to ‘humanize’ research, Larissa Thackray, PhD, associate professor of medicine, started a podcast called ‘Let’s Meet the Virologists’. Dr. Thackray talks with students, staff, postdocs and faculty from all over the country who are working to understand viruses and how they […]
Public health experts discussed how nationwide trends of gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis testing and diagnosis have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic at a virtual roundtable as part of the 2020 STD Prevention Conference September 14. Reported cases of the sexually transmitted diseases/infections declined during shelter-in-place orders throughout much of the United States in March, […]
The Washington University Institute of Clinical & Translational Sciences, with support from The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital (FBJH), has awarded funding to faculty members for COVID-19 translational research. The grants, part of the COVID-19 Research Funding Program, provide critical financial support for research that has the potential to influence COVID-19 patient care within the next […]
Jonathan Miner MD, PhD, completed his residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in rheumatology at Washington University School of Medicine. (WUSM) He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Mike Diamond’s lab and became faculty in the Department of Medicine, Rheuematology in 2016. Dr. Miner is an extremely accomplished physician-scientist whose laboratory studies the intersection of […]