MacDonough family’s philanthropy benefits movement disorder research and physical therapy scholarships
Relationships drive investment in WashU Medicine (Links to an external site)
Category: Research
Donor’s gift powers new frontier in Alzheimer’s research
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 […]
WashU announces new academic-industry collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb (Links to an external site)
WashU Medicine secures funding for vision research (Links to an external site)
Grant Furthers Novel Therapeutic Approach to Glioblastoma (Links to an external site)
Mosquito-borne Zika virus helps destroy deadly brain cancer in mice
Breast cancer startup founded by WashU Medicine researchers acquired by Lunit (Links to an external site)
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.
Couches advance gut microbiome research to combat malnutrition (Links to an external site)
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.
A businessman’s strategic gift powers Alzheimer’s disease research (Links to an external site)
Funding from parent and entrepreneur Ron Shaich is helping WashU Medicine investigators test potential interventions to treat and prevent neurodegenerative diseases.
Harris selected for William T. Grant Scholar Class of 2030 (Links to an external site)
Whitehall Foundation grant to help fuel Huang’s latest research
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 […]