New Alzheimer’s Treatment Targets Identified A research team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified potential new treatment targets for Alzheimer’s disease, as well as existing drugs that have therapeutic potential against these targets. Read more...
Researchers Receive More than $6 Million to Study Diabetes-Related Cardiovascular Disease Over the past two decades, the number of new diabetes cases has almost tripled in the United States, and 80% of patients with Type 2 diabetes die from cardiovascular disease. Read more...
New Cancer Treatments May be on the Horizon — Thanks to mRNA Vaccines The COVID-19 pandemic brought mRNA vaccines into the limelight. But the technology may also prove to be a powerful weapon against hard-to-treat cancers. Read more...
Death Rates are Declining for Many Common Cancers in the U.S., Report Finds The new report — released by the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other collaborators — found that between 2014 and 2018, death rates dropped for 11 out
COVID and the Brain: Researchers Zero in on How Damage Occurs How COVID-19 damages the brain is becoming clearer. New evidence suggests that the coronavirus’s assault on the brain could be multipronged: it might attack certain brain cells directly, reduce blood flow to brain tissue or trigger production of immune
Cell-Based Immunotherapy Shows Promise Against Melanoma An immunotherapy based on supercharging the immune system’s natural killer cells has been effective in treating patients with recurrent leukemia and other difficult to treat blood cancers. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown in preclinical studies conducted
NextGen Offers New Possibilities for MU Researchers Addressing Health Disparities Loren Bauerband, an assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences in the University of Missouri School of Health Professions, uses large data sets gathered from many sources — often called big data — to research health disparities facing transgender
Salivary Protein Database Could Benefit Precision Medicine A new database could help researchers explore the complex nature of saliva, potentially advancing precision medicine, according to a study published in the Journal of Dental Research. Read more...
Dr. Eric Leuthardt Meet Dr. Eric Leuthardt, Chief of the Division of Neurotechnology, Professor of Neurosurgery, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, and Director at the Center for Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology at Washington University School of Medicine. His research has focused on
Beth Prusaczyk, PhD, MSW This month's WISER Woman is Beth Prusaczyk, PhD, MSW, Instructor in Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on improving the health and healthcare of older adults, particularly vulnerable older adults such as those with dementia
