On April 25, 2024, the Office of Technology Management hosted the seventh annual Celebration of Inventors, an event to honor and recognize Washington University inventors, researchers and faculty entrepreneurs. Honorees included Molecular Microbiology’s Scott Hultgren and Jerome Pinkner.
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Ding receives Michelson Prize for advancing human immunology (Links to an external site)
Siyuan Ding, an assistant professor of molecular microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a Michelson Prize: Next Generation Grant from the Michelson Medical Research Foundation and the Human Immunome Project.
Ding receives junior investigator award from virology society (Links to an external site)
Siyuan Ding, PhD, an assistant professor of molecular microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the 2023 Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Award from the American Society of Virology.
Installation of Sean P. Whelan, PhD as the Marvin A. Brennecke Distinguished Professor of Microbiology. Tuesday November 8th, 2022. (Links to an external site)
Recurrent UTIs linked to gut microbiome, chronic inflammation (Links to an external site)
Antibiotics may increase risk of further UTIs by disrupting microbiome
Ernie Simms — a groundbreaking researcher and mentor in St. Louis (Links to an external site)
Beverley was both the inaugural recipient and namer of the Ernest St. John Simms distinguished professorship, which honors the first Black man to hold a tenured academic appointment at the WashU School of Medicine. Simms had an amazing life story.
Bridging the COVID-19 funding gap (Links to an external site)
In this Q&A, virologist Sean Whelan, PhD, and business leader Andrew M. Bursky explain how faculty members and donors swiftly came together to advance critical COVID-19 research.
Virus that causes COVID-19 can find alternate route to infect cells (Links to an external site)
Children hospitalized with breathing problems due to infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are likely to get sicker and remain hospitalized if they have high levels of defective copies of the virus, according to a new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Study predicts which kids hospitalized with RSV likely to worsen (Links to an external site)
Children hospitalized with breathing problems due to infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are likely to get sicker and remain hospitalized if they have high levels of defective copies of the virus, according to a new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Nobel awarded to Charles Rice for hepatitis C discoveries at Washington University School of Medicine (Links to an external site)
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three scientists for groundbreaking research that led to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, an insidious and deadly blood-borne virus. One of those scientists – virologist Charles M. Rice, PhD – conducted his seminal work while on the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine.