Partnership Development and Sustainability Support Program (PDSS) 2023-2024 Awardees

Partnership Development and Sustainability Support Program (PDSS) 2023-2024 Awardees
The Center for Community Health Partnership and Research is pleased to announce two partnerships were selected to receiving funding through the 2023-2024 Partnership Development and Sustainability Support (PDSS) program. PDSS awards provide up to $10,000 in funding for investigators and their community partner(s) to support their new or existing partnership efforts over a 12-month period. The […]

A scientific grand slam (Links to an external site)

A scientific grand slam
It’s a scientific grand slam for researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In the past week, they published papers in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, Science and JAMA – all among the world’s most prestigious scientific journals.

Equity for African Americans in Alzheimer’s disease (Links to an external site)

Equity for African Americans in Alzheimer’s disease
For 20 years, the Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center has worked to boost diversity in clinical trials. Alzheimer’s disease is like two deaths, said Stephanie Griffin, whose father died of the brain disease in 2015. “It’s horrific,” she said. “First, you watch them lose the ability to talk, to think, to do any of the […]

ICTS Announces 2023-2024 CTRFP Awardees

ICTS Announces 2023-2024 CTRFP Awardees
Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) and The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital awards 28 investigators as part of the 16th annual Clinical and Translational Research Funding Program (CTRFP). The CTRFP is the largest internal grant funding program of the ICTS. Applicants are required to submit proposals for projects that promote the translation […]

New diagnostic test is 1,000 times more sensitive than conventional tests (Links to an external site)

New diagnostic test is 1,000 times more sensitive than conventional tests
When Srikanth Singamaneni and Guy Genin, both professors of mechanical engineering and materials science at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, established a new collaboration with researchers from the School of Medicine in late 2019, they didn’t know the landscape of infectious disease research was about to shift dramatically. In a conference room […]