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Diamond honored with 2019 Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award
Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD, an infectious diseases specialist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been...
Jeffrey Henderson, MD, PhD and colleagues find signature molecule that may help to identify people at high risk for developing C. diff
Antibiotics are known to upset the balance of bacteria in the intestinal tract. In some cases, antibiotics can cause the...
Powderly honored with Distinguished Graduate Award by University College Dublin (UCD) Medical Graduates Association
William G. Powderly, MD, the J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine & Co-director, Infectious Diseases Division, received the UCD Medical...
New study published by Dr. Mitreva and collaborators identified inhibitors of key chokepoint enzymes that share potentially pan-intestinal and pan-phylum efficacy!
A new study published by Dr. Mitreva and collaborators identified 17 inhibitors of key chokepoint enzymes that share efficacy across...
Welcome First-Year Infectious Diseases Fellows!
We would like to introduce you to our incoming 2019 ID fellows. We are looking forward to working with you!...
DOLF project, headed by Gary Weil, MD, professor of medicine, announces major publication in PLOS Medicine
The DOLF Project is proud to announce publication in PLOS Medicine of results from major safety study investigating the use...
Powderly to lead Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences
Powderly to lead Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences
Medicine residency house staff honor Gerome Escota, MD, assistant professor of medicine, infectious diseases
Congratulations, Gerome Escota, for being awarded not one, but two, Teaching Faculty of the Year Awards, in Infectious Disease and...
Kwon named to health policy committee
Jennie H. Kwon, DO, MSCI, assistant professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been...
Congratulations, Rupa Patel, MD, MPH, DTM&H, assistant professor in ID, on receiving the Ethic of Service Award from Washington University!
Washington University in St. Louis and the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement presented the 16th annual Gerry and...
With scarce resources, Rupa Patel, MD, assistant professor of medicine, ID division, with Anne Glowinski, MD, MPE, address mental health needs of 1 million refugees
COX’S BAZAR DISTRICT, Bangladesh — From high atop barren hills and the crests of skinny, rutted roads, the views of...
Mike Diamond, MD, PhD, co-senior author of data that could lead to drugs, vaccines for viral arthritis caused by chikungunya
Chikungunya virus, once confined to the Eastern Hemisphere, has infected more than 1 million people in the Americas since 2013,...
Second year fellow, Kap Sum Foong, MD (center), receives SHEA Award
Pictured with Dave Warren, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and Hilary Babcock, MD, MPH, professor of medicine, Kap Sum Foong,...
Rachel Presti, MD, PhD and the Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Team collaborate in $3.4 million effort to make a better flu vaccine
The flu vaccine’s protection against influenza only lasts a few months. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St....
Up to $24 million will help to eliminate two tropical diseases
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports research to fight elephantiasis, river blindness Research from Washington University School of Medicine in...
Rupa Patel, MD, MPH, DTM&H among three St. Louisans selected to national list of influential young executives
Dr. Patel of Washington University School of Medicine, Mark Bini of Express Scripts, and Amy Schnettgoecke of Emerson have been...
Jennie H. Kwon, DO, MSCI, appointed Chair of SHEA Awards Committee
Jennie H. Kwon, DO, MSCI, an assistant professor of medicine, Infectious Diseases, recently accepted a three year appointment of the...
Liang co-edits issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
Stephen Y. Liang, MD, MPHS, assistant professor of medicine, Divisions of Emergency Medicine and Infectious Diseases, co-edited an issue of...
Rupa Patel, MD and Anne Glowinski, MD address mental health crisis among Rohingya refugees.
COX’S BAZAR DISTRICT, Bangladesh — A 12-year-old Rohingya boy flatly, stoically tells of how, within three hours one day in...
Caline Mattar and Indi Trehan, co-directors of a program that teaches medical trainees how to provide care in developing countries
A starved supply closet and a lack of basic necessities such as electricity or running water pose significant health risks...