Dr. Powderly weighs in on US withdrawal from the WHO
WashU Expert: America gains nothing by leaving WHO ‘Cutting this collaboration in the middle of a pandemic is foolish at best’ President Donald Trump’s recent announcement to suspend U.S. funding to, and withdraw from, the World Health Organization is “counter to our interests in addressing our needs to save the lives and further the health of […]
Welcome Fellows to ID!
Congratulations to our 2020 Fellows in Training on completing their first day as Infectious Diseases Fellows at Washington University School of Medicine. Your next two years will be both challenging and rewarding. You are the next generation of ID specialists in science, clinical care and education. Meet our fellows.
Jennifer Philips, MD, PhD, an associate professor of medicine and co-director of the Division of Infectious Diseases sets up high-security biosafety lab to screen potential COVID-19 antiviral drugs.
Six months into the pandemic, people diagnosed with mild cases of COVID-19 still are told to isolate themselves and wait out the infection at home. Doctors monitor such patients so they can intervene if their condition deteriorates, but no antiviral drugs have been shown to hasten recovery or forestall severe illness in people who are […]
William Powderly, MD, reminds the community that the COVID-19 pandemic is still in the first wave of the pandemic and Americans need to continue to take steps to control the spread.
More than 1,000 people in Missouri have died from COVID-19, according to data analyzed by St. Louis Public Radio. The state reached that milestone three months after the first person in the state died from the disease. In a recent St. Louis Public radio story, William Powderly, MD, the J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine, […]
In two and a half weeks Jane O’Halloran, MD and Phil Mudd, MD create COVID-19 specimen bank
In early March, just as the pandemic was gaining steam in the St. Louis region, Jane O’Halloran, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine, and Philip Mudd, MD, PhD, assistant professor of emergency medicine, met to discuss the possibility of creating a COVID-19 specimen bank. Two and a half weeks later, they began collecting their […]
Gary Weil, MD and Peter Fischer, PhD, evaluate COVID-19 antibody tests as diagnostic test in low-resource settings (Links to an external site)
Such antibody tests use finger-prick blood samples, deliver quick results Gary Weil, MD and Peter Fischer, PhD, professors of medicine, have joined an international effort led by the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics and the World Health Organization (WHO) to evaluate COVID-19 antibody tests for use as diagnostics in places with limited resources. Assisting with […]
Oral antibiotics work, shorten hospital stays for IV drug users with infections (Links to an external site)
Drs. Laura Marks, a clinical fellow in infectious diseases and Mike Durkin, assistant professor of medicine, conduct study that shows oral antibiotics work, shorten hospital stay for IV drug users with infections
Patients with COVID-19 donate specimens to advance research efforts
Philip Mudd, MD, PhD, above, an assistant professor of emergency medicine, and his colleague, Jane O’Halloran, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, infectious diseases specialist, have led efforts to create a repository for storing and managing specimens collected from patients with COVID-19. To date, more than 7,000 samples, including blood, urine and saliva specimens, have […]
COVID-19 mouse model will speed search for drugs, vaccines
The global effort to quickly develop drugs and vaccines for COVID-19 has been hampered by limited numbers of laboratory mice that are susceptible to infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report they have developed a mouse model of COVID-19 that replicates the […]
White Coats for Black Lives – ID Division faculty, fellows and staff demonstrate with hundreds of medical professionals for Black Lives Matter outside medical center complex
Washington University medical students organized and led a powerful event that brought together students, residents, faculty and staff in solidarity with those who stand against systemic racism. The White Coats for Black Lives event outside the Barnes-Jewish Hospital complex was held in conjunction with other hospitals across the area and country. A large group from […]
William Powderly, MD talks about COVID-19 investigational drugs and clinical trials on BJC’s “Five Questions with …”
Bill Powderly, MD, J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine & Co-director, Infectious Diseases Division, answers questions about COVID-19 investigational drugs in clinical trials, hosted by Emily Brasel, director of communications for BJC HealthCare. The video is part of “5 Questions with…,” an ongoing series in which leaders answer viewer questions about important Medical Campus topics.
$5 million supports research into neglected tropical diseases (Links to an external site)
Grants fund studies of parasitic infections affecting millions worldwide Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received two grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling more than $5 million to study two types of parasitic worm infection that cause devastating illness in millions of people worldwide.
Dharushana Muthulingam, MD, MS, COVID-19 expert for Vogue
When Vogue began covering COIVD-19, Dharushana Muthulingam, MD, MS, instructor in medicine, infectious diseases, was their go to expert. Dr. Muthulingam has responded to questions on social distancing, and what to do with your clothes after returning home from running errands. More recently she has responded to the mysterious, potentially coronavirus-related illness affecting children. In the […]
The new COVID-19 drug remdesivir is here. Now what? Dr. Powderly shares his thoughts in Science News.
Although remdesivir has been hailed as a game changer by some, a clinical trial conducted in Wuhan, China, did not find any statistically meaningful difference in recovery for COVID-19 patients getting remdesivir infusions compared with patients receiving a placebo, and a large clinical trial twice changed the measure by which it judged the drug’s success […]
Students, faculty providing coronavirus-related outreach to Latino population (Links to an external site)
Spanish-speaking students, faculty partner with community leaders to offer education aimed at preventing virus’ spread As stay-at-home orders to stem the spread of COVID-19 were announced in March, Austin Ibele, a first-year student at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, investigated whether information about the coronavirus existed in Spanish to alert the area’s […]