Findings help explain why vaccinated people at low risk during delta surge
Antibodies elicited by COVID-19 vaccination effective against delta variant (Links to an external site)
Fathers and Families Support Center helps families make a fresh start
Fathers and Families Support Center (FFSC) has helped provide stability to families since its inception in 1997. The last few years have been bittersweet for the organization: it satisfied a dream of a new headquarters in downtown St. Louis and continued successful operations during a pandemic. Yet the loss of founder and CEO Halbert Sullivan […]
Investigator uses ICTS resources for COVID-19 research and clinical trial efforts
The CTSA program was developed to accelerate new treatments from the lab to patients, enabled to a large extent by patients participating in and benefiting from clinical trials. Clinical trials provide that needed bridge from human subjects to hypotheses to treatments that can directly benefit human health. And, never has this connection been more critical […]
mRNA Vaccines May Pack More Persistent Punch Against COVID-19 Than Thought (Links to an external site)
Ganesh Babulal, PhD, featured in CLIC profile on CTSA program brain researchers (Links to an external site)
June is National Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness month. Scientists supported by the CTSA Program are contributing important research to help patients with neurodegenerative diseases.
Rev. Shug and her wife stay involved with church and anti-racism education
The Reverend Shug G. will be the first to tell you subtlety is not one of her gifts. She and her wife Doris never dreamed they would end up in the Midwest, be legally married, and be so accepted in church. Shug currently serves as Deacon at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Ladue. On July […]
COVID-19 vaccine generates immune structures critical for lasting immunity (Links to an external site)
Vaccines likely induce strong, persistent immunity to COVID-19
Virus that causes COVID-19 can find alternate route to infect cells (Links to an external site)
COVID-19 drugs, vaccines still effective against mutating virus
Measuring the impact of science; How CTSAs use the Translational Science Benefits Model to show real world benefits
Challenge of measuring impact Government, non-profits, and organizations fund research with the ultimate goal of improving health and society. Yet measuring these long-term outcomes can be challenging, and research impact has traditionally been tied to quantitative productivity, like bibliometrics and grant funding, and not necessarily the broader impacts of research. For years, researchers lacked a […]
New snack foods nurture healthy gut microbiome (Links to an external site)
Microbiome-modifying foods designed with specific combinations of plant fibers