Dr. William Hawkins, MTPCI Alumni, and current CRTC mentor, is principal investigator of a $10.4 million National Cancer Institute (NCI) grant aimed at developing new treatments for pancreatic cancer. Read more in The Source »
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 »
Sarah Hartz comments on medical research methodology
“Most of those are based on educated white people, and not on the full range of the American population,” said Dr. Sarah Hartz, KL2 alumni. Read more »
Sarah Hartz finds use of internet in medical research may hinder minority recruitment
A School of Medicine study, lead by Dr. Sarah Hartz, MTPCI and KL2 alumni, finds that, even in this internet age, explicit efforts are needed to encourage participation in medical research among under-represented groups. Otherwise, health-care disparities may persist. Read more in The Source »
$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 »
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 […]