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 […]
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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 »
KL2 alumni Dr. Pepino finds age, obesity, and dopamine appear to influence preference for sweet foods
A study by KL2 alumni Dr. M. Yanina Pepino and KL2 mentor Dr. Tamara Hershey finds as young people reach adulthood, their preferences for sweet foods typically decline. But for people with obesity, new research suggests that the drop-off may not be as steep and that the brain’s reward system operates differently in obese people […]
Graham Colditz, MPHS Director, appointed to Moonshot Committee
Graham Colditz, MPHS Director has been named to the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative to serve as an adviser. Two researchers at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis — Robert Schreiber, PhD, and Graham Colditz, MD, PhD — have been named as advisers to the National Cancer […]
CRTC alumni publishes study on declining problems with Marijuana-related problems in teens
Patty Cavazos-Rehg (CRTC alumni, mentor, and coursemaster) and Laura Bierut (CRTC mentor) recently published a study in which a survey of more than 216,000 adolescents from all 50 states indicates the number of teens with marijuana-related problems is declining. Similarly, rates of marijuana use by young people are falling. Read more in The Source »
2016 CRTC Award Winners
Graduation 2016
The CRTC is excited to have hosted its 10th Joint Recognition Ceremony. Congratulations to all the 2016 CRTC Graduates! May 19, 2016 the following scholars were recognized for their program completion in of the TL1 Predoctoral Program or MSCI, MPHS, or AHBR degree. The joint recognition ceremony officiated over by Dean David Perlmutter, Dr. Victoria […]
Victoria Fraser Receives Citation of Merit from University of Missouri School of Medicine
Victoria J. Fraser, MD, CRTC Co-Director, KL2 Director and head of the Department of Medicine at the School of Medicine, has received the Citation of Merit from the University of Missouri School of Medicine. The honor is given to alumni who have performed outstanding work in their fields.