Sarah Ackerman, PhD, is one of 13 early-career scientists in the U.S. to receive the 2023 Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience. She will receive a three-year $300,000 grant to pursue high-risk, cutting-edge research.
Tony Tsai, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology, has been named a 2023 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.
School of Medicine applications are up and more students now receive scholarship funding
A generous $15 million commitment from Philip and Sima Needleman, longtime benefactors of Washington University in St. Louis, will enable WashU to leverage its expertise in biomedical discovery to boost drug development.
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the pharmaceutical company Eisai Co. Ltd., headquartered in Japan, have formed a research collaboration aimed at developing new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions.
Carol B. Loeb and her late husband, Jerome T. Loeb, made a gift establishing a unique fellowship program that would provide School of Medicine faculty with protected time and funding to pilot innovative approaches to training future physicians. Eighteen years later, 29 faculty members have been named Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Teaching Fellows, and the program has become an idea generator and incubator, professional springboard, vibrant community and much more.
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and BJC HealthCare are joining forces and partnering with CuriMeta, a new company that will accelerate lifesaving research in the fight against chronic and acute diseases that impact our communities.
Four students share how scholarship opportunities are shaping their goals and futures
$15 million gift to strengthen life science research, education across university
Donors and faculty members come together to advance critical research