Dr. John Krais was awarded the 2025 Early Career Investigator Grant John Krais, PhD is an assistant professor at WashU Medicine and is a member of the Center for Genome Integrity at Siteman Cancer Center. Dr. Krais is testing a gene found in many tumors and how it may help cancer cells survive, with the […]
Marco Pignatelli, MD, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a five-year $6.5 million grant from the Wellcome Trust to unravel little-known brain functions involved in depression. His project focuses on understanding the neurobiology underlying chronic anergia, the debilitating loss of energy and enthusiasm that affects 90% of people with depression.
For financial advisor Kevyn Schroeder, her first career as a nurse at St. Louis Children’s Hospital may not have lasted a lifetime, but it did make an enduring impression on her life. One of the most meaningful takeaways was a friendship she built with Penny Shackelford, MD ’68, professor emerita of pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Funding from Anita Palmer Corbin’s trust will help investigators develop new treatments
In recognition of $50 million gift from Andrew and Barbara Taylor, department has been named the Taylor Family Department of Neurosurgery
