ICTS Announces 2024-2025 CTRFP Awardees

Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) and The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital awards 20 investigators as part of the 17th 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 […]

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 […]

ICTS investigators optimize methods of treatment for blood cancers through genome sequencing test

Drs. Duncavage and Spencer

When it comes to pinpointing the best courses of treatment for cancer patients, there is always room for improvement. That has been the belief for two investigators at the Washington University School of Medicine, leading them to the groundbreaking development of a genomic sequencing test that captures a full picture of patient-specific data. This provides […]

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.

Long-standing hormone treatment for donated hearts found to be ineffective (Links to an external site)

Practice of using thyroid hormones to preserve function for transplantation may even cause harm Doctors managing deceased organ donors routinely treat the donors’ bodies with thyroid hormones in a bid to preserve heart function and increase the quantity and quality of hearts and other organs available for transplantation. However, according to a recent clinical trial […]