Welcome New Faculty & Staff – March 2018
STAFF Name Title Division Kelly Allard Patient Billing/Servcs Rep II Ambulatory Care Paige Arndt Patient Safety Nurse Coord Central Admin Ashley Bollinger Staff Nurse PCRU Nicole Crisp Nurse Practitioner Hematology/Oncology Melissa Gorsuch Patient Billing/Servcs Rep II Ambulatory Care Tamara Haydon Supv Clinical Office Non Cred Ambulatory Care Susan Joh WU …
Funding Opportunities – March 2018
National Institutes of Health R01 Series – new: June 5 U01 – new: June 5 K Series – new: June 12 R03, R21, R33, R21/R33, R34, R36, UH2, UH3, UH2/UH3 – new: June 16 R15 – new, renewal, resubmission, revision: June 25 NIH Due Dates Washington University Internal Competitions – …
Funded Awards – March 2018
PI Agency Title Jennifer Avari Silva NIH/SBIR/STTR/Sentiar, Inc. Using Augmented reality to Make Cardiac Ablation Simpl… Todd Druley Leukemia & Lymphoma Society/Career Development Program Parallel digital, single-molecule quantitation of fusi… Andrea Granados Wash U CRTC/KL2 Glucose Dysregulation, Body Composition and Andrew Janowski NIH/K08 Characterization of Astrovirus VA1, A Novel Neurotropi… …
$5 million aids development of artificial red blood cells
Research focused on preventing deaths from traumatic bleeding by Kristina Sauerwein • February 26, 2018 Trauma is the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 46. In the U.S., there are about 30,000 preventable deaths each year in patients with severe bleeding from trauma. In an effort to stem the …
Genetic Lung Disease’s Molecular Roots Identified
Insight into primary ciliary dyskinesia could aid treatment By Tamara Bhandari January 23, 2018 Respiratory infections peak during the winter months, and most people recover within a few weeks. But for those with a rare genetic lung disease, the sniffling, coughing and congestion never end. The tiny hairlike structures called cilia that …
Novel Treatment of Fatty Liver Disease
This project seeks to revolutionize NAFLD treatment by selectively targeting a key nutrient sensor in the liver with a novel patentable small molecule inhibitor. Management: Paul W. Hruz, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Endocrinology and Diabetes; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Cell Biology & Physiology Brian DeBosch, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Cell Biology & …
Society of Pediatric Research
Congratulations to Megan Cooper, Brian DeBosch, Laura Schuettpelz, Indi Trehan and Yumi Turmelle for being elected to the Society of Pediatric Research! Megan A. Cooper, M.D., Ph.D. Brian DeBosch, M.D., Ph.D. Laura Schuettpelz, M.D, Ph.D. Indi Trehan, M.D., M.P.H, DTM&H Yumirle Turmelle, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Faculty Feature: Dustin Baldridge, MD, PhD
Dustin’s parents hail from Arkansas, and his family moved to suburban St. Louis when he was one year old, so that his father could take a position as a computer programmer for the Missouri-Pacific railroad. Dustin is the second of five children, and here discloses the information required of him …
Big move for the littlest patients
NICU patients at St. Louis Children’s were moved Jan. 27 into newly opened, expanded unit February 1, 2018 The patients may be tiny, but moving them to their new, temporary home was big. On Jan. 27, 41 infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at St. Louis Children’s Hospital …
WUPS Tips and Tricks
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