Jane Garbutt interviewed for St Louis American “Health Matters” feature

Dr. Jane Garbutt, Director of the Mentored Training Program in Clinical Investigation and Co-Director of the KL2 Career Development Program, was recently interviewed for the St. Louis American “Health Matters” article discussing the hazards of e-liquid. Read More »

Terrance Kummer awarded NIH grant to study brain activity in coma

Dr. Terrance Kummer, KL2 alumni and current MSCI scholars, along with ShiNung Ching from the School of Engineering were awarded a $403,625 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the electrical activity of the brain during a coma. Read more »

$5.1 million aimed at preventing superbugs, infections in health-care settings

CRTC Director, David Warren, MD, MPH along with current KL2 Scholar Jennie Kwon, DO, and KL2 Alumni Erik Dubberke, MD, MSPH are coinvestigators in a new CDC EpiCenter grant awarded to Washington University. This funding is part of $26 million awarded by the CDC to five academic medical centers as part of a patient-safety effort. Read […]

CRTC Mentor and K12 Scholar are Launching a Study in African-American Women with Breast Cancer

CRTC Mentor, Laura Bierut, MD, is the Senior Investigator working with her Co-Investigator, K12 Scholar Foluso Ademuyiwa, MD, are launching a study in African-American women with breast cancer to learn whether their genetic risks are influenced by the same mutations that affect white women or are altogether different. Read more in The Source »

KL2 Alumni Dr. Pepino Cited in Time Magazine Article

Dr. Yanino Pepino de Gruev’s research on sugar substitutes was recently cited in the Time article “You Asked: Do Sugar Substitutes Cause Type 2 Diabetes?” Dr. Pepino de Gruev is a KL2 alumni and currently Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Nutritional Science division at Washington University.

Dr. Nagele honored by Society of Biological Psychiatry

Peter Nagele, MD, MTPCI alumni and current CRTC mentor, associate professor of anesthesiology at the School of Medicine, has received the Ziskind-Somerfeld Research Award from the Society for Biological Psychiatry. Read more in The Source »