William G. Powderly, MD, the J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine & Co-director, Infectious Diseases Division, received the UCD Medical Graduates Association (MGA) Distinguished Graduate Award at their MGA Reunion 2019. The UCD MGA Distinguished Graduate Awards are awarded to outstanding graduates of the UCD School of Medicine, who are nominated by their alumni in […]
A new study published by Dr. Mitreva and collaborators identified 17 inhibitors of key chokepoint enzymes that share efficacy across parasitic worms with very different mode of parasitism. The active inhibitors target three different target classes. Representative inhibitors from each target class also had efficacy in hamsters infected with hookworm, as characterized by negative effects […]
The DOLF Project is proud to announce publication in PLOS Medicine of results from major safety study investigating the use of a triple drug combination “IDA” as a treatment regimen for lymphatic filariasis in five countries. The study enrolled more than 26,000 participants in five countries. Results from this study suggest that IDA is safe […]
Powderly to lead Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences
Congratulations, Gerome Escota, for being awarded not one, but two, Teaching Faculty of the Year Awards, in Infectious Disease and in General Internal Medicine, from medicine residency house staff at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Escota also serves as the Associate Program Director, of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Programand Clerkship Director in Medicine. The Medicine Housestaff […]
Jennie H. Kwon, DO, MSCI, assistant professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named a member of the National Academy of Medicine’s Health Policy Fellowships and Leadership Programs (HPFLP) Advisory Committee. As a committee member, she will provide perspective and insight to the HPFLP director and staff on […]
Washington University in St. Louis and the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement presented the 16th annual Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Awards Wednesday, April 17, 2019 in the Knight Center Dining Room on the Danforth Campus in St. Louis. Dr. Rupa R. Patel, assistant professor of medicine infectious diseases, was among […]
COX’S BAZAR DISTRICT, Bangladesh — From high atop barren hills and the crests of skinny, rutted roads, the views of the vast camps that serve as makeshift homes to more than 900,000 Rohingya refugees are staggering.
Chikungunya virus, once confined to the Eastern Hemisphere, has infected more than 1 million people in the Americas since 2013, when mosquitoes carrying the virus were discovered in the Caribbean. Most people who become infected develop fever and joint pain that last about a week. But in up to half of patients, the virus can […]
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports research to fight elephantiasis, river blindness Research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis over the past decade has helped advance a global campaign led by the World Health Organization (WHO) to eliminate two neglected tropical diseases that have left tens of millions of people permanently disabled […]
Dr. Patel of Washington University School of Medicine, Mark Bini of Express Scripts, and Amy Schnettgoecke of Emerson have been selected to a national list of influential young executives. The Business Journals’ Influencers: Rising Stars spotlights 100 people in business across the country who are having an impact relatively early in their careers on their […]
Jennie H. Kwon, DO, MSCI, an assistant professor of medicine, Infectious Diseases, recently accepted a three year appointment of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology (SHEA) awards committee. Dr. Kwon will chair the committee that oversees annual career recognition awards during IDWeek.
Dr. Sumanth Gandra joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an Assistant Professor on January 21, 2019. Dr. Gandra received his medical degree from Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad, India in 2004. In 2007, he received his MPH degree in community health from Eastern Kentucky University. He completed his internal medicine […]
Stephen Y. Liang, MD, MPHS, assistant professor of medicine, Divisions of Emergency Medicine and Infectious Diseases, co-edited an issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America dedicated entirely to Infectious Disease Emergencies with a goal of providing a broad range of updates to emergency physicians. Dr. Liang’s co-edited this issue with Rachel L. Chin, MD, […]
COX’S BAZAR DISTRICT, Bangladesh — A 12-year-old Rohingya boy flatly, stoically tells of how, within three hours one day in August 2017, the Myanmar military murdered 56 members of his family in their village in western Myanmar. Of his immediate family, his parents and three sisters were slain; only he and his brothers — ages […]
A starved supply closet and a lack of basic necessities such as electricity or running water pose significant health risks to patients at medical clinics in poverty-stricken parts of the world, sometimes even more so than illness or disease.
Rachel Presti, MD, PhD and the Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Team collaborate in $3.4 million effort to make a better flu vaccine
Stephen Liang, MD, MPHS, assistant professor of medicine, joined Missouri Task Force I (MO-TF1) in 2011 as a medical team manager, and has traveled to many sites helping disaster victims and their communities. When Hurricane Florence hit in September 2018, MO-TF1 was activated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to deploy as a type III […]
Infectious disease specialist Gary Weil, MD, at the School of Medicine, has received a $2.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to lead a clinical trial in eastern Ghana to evaluate a triple drug combination for treating onchocerchiasis, a parasitic worm disease also called river blindness. The researchers want to determine whether […]
Study identifies key step in spread of drug resistance, opportunity for intervention Spotless surfaces in hospitals can hide bacteria that rarely cause problems for healthy people but pose a serious threat to people with weakened immune systems. Acinetobacter baumannii causes life-threatening lung and bloodstream infections in hospitalized people. Such infections are among the most difficult to treat […]