Former pharma executive turns family’s challenge into hope for others John Ludwig has watched his wife of nearly 40 years, Sue, slowly decline from Alzheimer’s disease since she was diagnosed in 2019 at age 64. The experience has brought home a painful reality: People like Sue — and the more than 7 million other Americans […]
Mosquito-borne Zika virus helps destroy deadly brain cancer in mice
Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH, and Shu (Joy) Jiang, PhD, at WashU Medicine, created Prognosia, which harnesses AI-driven software to analyze mammograms to improve breast cancer risk prediction. Tech company Lunit has acquired it.
Support from George and Debra Couch advances efforts led by Jeffrey Gordon to combat childhood malnutrition by producing therapeutic foods that target the gut microbiome.
Funding from parent and entrepreneur Ron Shaich is helping WashU Medicine investigators test potential interventions to treat and prevent neurodegenerative diseases.
Research focuses on a better understanding of learning and prediction. Cheng Huang, PhD, has won a Whitehall Foundation grant to study the neural mechanisms of prediction using Drosophila (fruit flies) as a powerful model to understand analogous processes in the human brain. “Receiving this Whitehall Foundation grant is an incredible privilege and an exciting opportunity for our new lab,” said Huang, an […]
MIND Prize funds research into neurodegenerative diseases Elizabeth Pollina, PhD, an assistant professor of developmental biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the 2025 MIND Prize from the Pershing Square Foundation. The MIND (Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery) Prize funds research by early- to mid-career investigators who are making innovative […]