Aerosol researchers turn toward COVID-19
Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis are at the forefront of aerosol science. The Center of Aerosol Science and Engineering (CASE) conducts research from as high as 250 miles above Earth at the International Space Station all the way down to remote marine environments: their expertise ranges from the broadest scale to […]
School of Medicine researchers develop COVID-19 nasal vaccine
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a vaccine that targets the SARS-CoV-2 virus, can be given in one dose via the nose, and is effective in preventing infection in mice susceptible to the novel coronavirus. The investigators—Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD the Herbert S. Gasser Professor of Medicine and […]
Keeping campus safe
In summer 2020, with the pandemic showing no signs of abating, it became clear that returning to campus in the fall would be a formidable challenge. Plans were put into action to make campus as safe as possible for returning students, faculty, and staff. As part of that process, every single building and every single […]
2.15.21
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Luke receives CDC grant for tobacco control user guides
Douglas Luke, director of the Center for Public Health Systems Science and the Irving Louis Horowitz Professor in Social Policy at the Brown School, recently received a $2.9 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The grant, which runs for 4 1/2 years, is to continue developing a series of tobacco control user guides […]
Medical researchers get HHS grant for hospital project
Jennie H. Kwon, DO, assistant professor of medicine, Carey-Ann Burnham, professor of pathology and immunology, and Gautam Dantas, professor of pathology and immunology, all at the School of Medicine, have received a $2.4 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The grant funds a study to assess whether a cleaning intervention […]
WashU entrepreneurs respond to coronavirus
WashU innovators and entrepreneurs do what they can to help and serve those directly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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