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NIH Awards $1.6 Million PRIDE R25 Grant to WashU Clinical Research Training Center (CRTC) to Advance URiM Postbaccalaureate Engagement in NIDDK Research (Links to an external site)

The Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program in Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases (PRIDE)

The Clinical Research Training Center (CRTC) at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has been awarded a prestigious NIH PRIDE R25 grant valued at $1.6 million. This grant is designed to bolster educational initiatives aimed at engaging postbaccalaureate students from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds in biomedical and behavioral research, with a particular focus […]

Call for Proposals! Center seeks projects aimed at reducing cancer disparities (Links to an external site)

Pitch Partners

The Center for Community Health Partnership and Research is joining forces with universitypartners the Institute for Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) and Siteman Cancer Center to call for projects that connect community and academic partners in service of lowering cancer disparities and providing equitable cancer care. Selected projects will be presented at the September 26 […]

2024 Leader in Innovation Award: Suresh Vedantham, MD, FSIR  (Links to an external site)

Suresh Vedantham, MD, FSIR

Suresh Vedantham, MD, FSIR is widely recognized as a distinguished leader in the clinical delivery and rigorous investigation of image-guided therapies for venous thromboembolism (VTE). He completed medical school at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine (1992), medical internship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (1993), radiology residency at UCLA Medical […]

Future of precision medicine must involve Black community (Links to an external site)

Myla Hunter, a Black Girls Do STEM participant, presented alongside Jariyah McCalister, Savannah Ewing, Maame-Owusua Boateng (Yale), and Devin Brown (Yale) at the Association of Public Health's Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA

Three years ago, we met as virtual colleagues on a project to understand the extent of COVID-19 infections in the St. Louis region. Dr. Maricque, then a new faculty member at the Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM), was a researcher and site coordinator, and Dr. Carter served as a project phlebotomist while completing her […]

Ciorba receives grant to evaluate treatment for colorectal cancer   (Links to an external site)

Matt Ciorba, MD

Matthew A. Ciorba, MD, a professor of medicine and director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a $2.8 million award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to evaluate a new treatment in combination with routine radiation and chemotherapy in patients […]

Reducing COVID-19 Transmission in Underserved Schools in North St. Louis County Through Testing and Vaccine Uptake (Links to an external site)

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed significant challenges in providing healthcare services, such as testing and vaccinations, to underserved communities across the US. During the planning of the Safe Return to Schools Study in January 2021, there was limited information on COVID-19 transmission and prevention in K-12 schools.