Providing such patients oral meds reduces hospital readmissions
Oral antibiotics work, shorten hospital stays for IV drug users with infections (Links to an external site)
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Patients with COVID-19 donate specimens to advance research efforts (Links to an external site)
Biorepository project initiated early in pandemic to streamline coronavirus research efforts
CTSA Working Group Advances Dissemination and Implementation Science
Provides ICTS Investigator Valuable Opportunity for Professional Development The CTSA program provides opportunities for hub members to come together and advance knowledge and progress around various topics. One way this is accomplished is through working groups. Working groups consider and develop solutions around a specific clinical and translational science issue and provide deliverables that fill […]
COVID-19 study looks at genetics of healthy people who develop severe illness (Links to an external site)
To help unravel the mysteries of COVID-19, scientists are sequencing the DNA of young, healthy adults and children who develop severe illness despite having no underlying medical problems. The researchers are looking for genetic defects that could put certain individuals at high risk of becoming severely ill from the novel coronavirus.
WashU Investigator Team Utilize ICTS Resources to Prepare for Successful R01 Grant Submission
Planning for your first R01 application can be daunting. Even for seasoned investigators, it takes time and requires sufficient preparation. Early-stage investigators can find needed support by utilizing resources from the ICTS throughout their grant submission process. Recently funded by the National Institute on Aging with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), ICTS members, Sarah […]
High participation in social distancing would decrease coronavirus impact in rural Missouri (Links to an external site)
High levels of social distancing would lower the COVID-19 infection, hospitalization and death rates over the next six months across all counties in Missouri, finds a new study from Washington University in St. Louis.
ICTS Funding Awardee Pivots Services to Meet Needs of Housing Complex Residents Facing COVID-19
The community-academic partnership between Saint Louis University researcher Pamela Xaverius, PhD, MBA, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice and Rose Anderson-Rice, Deputy Director with Generate Health, is utilizing ICTS funding to meet the needs of mothers and families living in government housing during the current COVID-19 pandemic. […]
On the front lines in the fight against COVID-19 (Links to an external site)
Medical professionals dramatically shift focus to help patients infected with coronavirus.
Diabetes reversed in mice with genetically edited stem cells derived from patients (Links to an external site)
Using induced pluripotent stem cells produced from the skin of a patient with a rare, genetic form of insulin-dependent diabetes called Wolfram syndrome, researchers transformed the human stem cells into insulin-producing cells and used the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 to correct a genetic defect that had caused the syndrome. They then implanted the cells into lab mice […]
COVID-19 survivors needed to donate blood plasma (Links to an external site)
Infectious diseases physicians at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed an expanded access program to give blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors to critically ill patients at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.