Professors honored for research, service, teaching, community contributions
Category: Achievements
ICTS Achievements
2024 Leader in Innovation Award: Suresh Vedantham, MD, FSIR (Links to an external site)
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 […]
Chen, Silva named senior members of National Academy of Inventors (Links to an external site)
Hong Chen and Jonathan Silva, both faculty members in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, have been named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors. They will be inducted in June.
$5 million for research on immune responses to cancer-causing virus in immunocompromised kids (Links to an external site)
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a $5.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate immune responses to a cancer-causing virus after organ transplantation in children.
2023 Castle Connolly Top Doctors® (Links to an external site)
The Department of Medicine is proud to announce that 110 of our faculty have been selected for the 2023 Castle Connolly Top Doctors® list.
Academy honors six university faculty
Six Washington University in St. Louis faculty members and one alumnus are being honored by the Academy of Science – St. Louis for their outstanding contributions to the field. They will be recognized at an awards dinner Sept. 20 at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Laura Jean Bierut, MD, is the Alumni Endowed Professor of Psychiatry […]
Ding receives junior investigator award from virology society (Links to an external site)
Recognized for work on gut viruses and how they cause disease 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.
Maternal vitamin D deficiency increases lifetime diabetes risk in offspring (Links to an external site)
Studies in mice and in human immune cells link low prenatal vitamin D in mothers to insulin resistance in offspring Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a process in immune cells that links vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy to an increased risk of Type 2 diabetes in offspring. The […]
Holtzman awarded Watanabe Prize in Translational Research (Links to an external site)
David Holtzman, MD,has received the August M. Watanabe Prize in Translational Research from the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute.
ICTS Publication Snapshot 2017
ICTS member scientific productivity in 2017 1,662 ICTS members (75% of active members) published in 2017, resulting in 4,450 publications.