Global Health Spotlight: Collaborator’s study to advance care retention in patients living with HIV in Zambia (Links to an external site)
This innovative study offers flexibility and can be tailored to help address various individual barriers and determine which combination of strategies works best to quickly get people back into care but then ensure they stay in care. Aaloke Mody, MD, primary investigator
COVID-19 cases on the rise in St. Louis (Links to an external site)
Doctors say it’s a slight bump from what was the lowest level of cases since the start of the pandemic. ST. LOUIS — COVID-19 cases are rising in the St. Louis area. Why? You guessed it: school. “We are seeing steadily increasing levels of COVID,” Washington University Infectious Disease physician at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Dr. Steven Lawrence said.
Symposium helps advance antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention & implementation science (Links to an external site)
The symposium on Antimicrobial Stewardship’s role in health care and infectious disease prevention, co-chaired by Assistant Research Professor, Ginger McKay, PhD, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Jennie Kwon, DO, MSCI, was recently hosted by the Center for D&I at the Institute for Public Health and the Division of Infectious Diseases.
ID Division teams with McKelvey School of Engineering to develop rapid diagnostic test for Gonorrhoea infection
Gonorrhoea is the second most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection globally. The World Health Organization has identified Neisseria gonorrhoeae as a high-priority pathogen due to widespread antimicrobial resistance. Currently, there are no rapid diagnostic tests widely available to identify Neisseria gonorrhoeae which is exacerbating antimicrobial resistance problem due to notoriously inaccurate syndromic management of sexually transmitted infections, […]
Are doctors prepared? Meeting the health challenges of climate change. (Links to an external site)
Infectious diseases faculty weigh in on the possible effects of climate change on infectious diseases such as facilitating the evolution of multidrug-resistant superbugs and redrawing the map on endemic fungal infections.
D&I Spotlight: Postdoc leverages passion for racial equity & justice to “Make the science care” (Links to an external site)
Dr. Cory Bradley uses D&I science as a tool for driving forward racial equity and justice projects.
Four section head appointments announced for the clinical side of ID Division
The infectious diseases division at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has grown markedly in the last five years. In order to foster the continued success of our diverse missions, we are pleased to announce the appointment of four section heads for the clinical side of the ID Division. The major roles of […]
Anti-inflammatory drugs did not speed COVID-19 recovery but prevented deaths (Links to an external site)
William G. Powderly, MD, the J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine & co-director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis served as the national principal investigator leading an NIH supported trial, “Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) Trial”.
David Curiel, MD, PhD and Michael Diamond, MD, PhD, received the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Links to an external site)
Congratulations Michael Diamond and David Curiel, recipients of the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for development of nasal vaccine against SARS-CoV-2!
Deadly Fungal Infections Confound Doctors—‘It’s Going to Get Worse’ (Links to an external site)
5 physician-scientists named Dean’s Scholars (Links to an external site)
Marilia Pinzone, MD, third year ID fellow, is among physician-scientists named Dean’s Scholars. Congratulations, Marilia!
Annual ID Research Symposium features keynote address
Washington University Infectious Diseases Division welcomed Amita Gupta, MD, MHS as the Inaugural J. Russell Little MD Lecturer at the 2023 Annual Infectious Diseases Research Symposium on June 22, 2023. J. Russell Little, MD, was on the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis from 1964 to 2005. He served as chief […]
So much to see and do in St. Louis! (Links to an external site)
Future ID Fellows…St. Louis, Missouri has so much to offer!
Tick-borne Bourbon virus infects people, wildlife in St. Louis area (Links to an external site)
Jacco Boon, PhD, associate professor of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology and Pathology and Immunology, has received more than $4 million in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since he first started to study the Bourbon Virus. He is the principal investigator on two NIH grants and a co-investigator on another two grants to […]