Congratulations to Washington University TL1 trainees, Ameen Awad, Samuel Cortez, MD, Annahita Fotouhi, and Alexandra Zdonczyk for winning the inaugural TL1 Debate on November 9, 2021, defeating a team from the University of Michigan.
You have a gene. It’s called “cholinergic receptor nicotinic alpha 5 subunit,” or CHRNA5 for short. It does important things inside your body. Certain sections of it, for example, dictate how your brain processes nicotine. That’s true for everybody. You may, however, have variants in and near this gene that put you at risk: They […]
PhD student Audrey Keleman, MSOT, was selected as a 2021 TL1 Translational Sciences Postdoctoral Program (TSPP) trainee.
In 2015 Kenneth Remy, MD, MHSc arrived in St. Louis to join the Washington University School of Medicine faculty as an assistant professor of pediatrics and launched his lab studying the intersection of transfusion hematology and immune dysregulation. He was fresh off a National Institutes of Health (NIH) fellowship in Bethesda, Maryland, gaining experience that helped to […]
Summer Research Program has wrapped up its 2020 program differently this year. Due to COVID-19 on-campus restrictions, the summer research program cohort attended virtual classes and research activities. The Clinical Research Training Center (CRTC) would like to thank our mentors and partners, such talented and experienced people, that worked determinedly to ensure our summer research […]
Damon Runyon Physician-Scientist Training Award Application Deadline: Monday, December 3, 2018 Physician-scientists who are both clinically trained and expert researchers are essential to the successful translation of scientific discovery into more effective patient therapies. They have the unique capacity to blend their insights from treating patients and working in the laboratory in a way that […]
At Washington University in St. Louis, an NCATS Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program hub, Rupa R. Patel, M.D., M.P.H., is studying the barriers that keep young adults from obtaining PrEP. Click here to read the full article.
Dr. Li-Shiun Chen, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, has developed an implementation study which has decreased patient smoking rates from 57.4% to 54.3% by increasing the percent of patients receiving smoking cessation medication from 4.6% to 18.0%. Click here to read the full article.
Weekly NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices NIH Guide for Grants and ContractsJuly 20, 2018Table of Contents (TOC)Web Version Notices HHS Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Contract Solicitation (PHS 2019-1) Now Available(NOT-OD-18-209) Office of the Director, NIH Updated Notice of NIH’s Interest in Diversity(NOT-OD-18-210) Office of the Director, NIH NIH Implementation of the Burden-Reducing Provisions […]