Scientist Patti receives teacher-scholar award
Gary Patti, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been recognized with a 2015 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award for his contributions to metabolomics at the bench and in the classroom.
Patti wins Sloan Research Fellowship
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced Feb. 17 that
Washington University in St. Louis’ Gary Patti has been awarded a 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship.
He is among 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers selected as
fellowship recipients this year. Awarded annually since 1955, the
fellowships are given to early-career scientists and scholars whose
achievements and potential identify them as rising stars, the next
generation of scientific leaders.
Global metabolomic initiative announced
Investigators at Washington University and The Scripps Research Institute have announced the launch of a “Global Metabolomic Initiative” to facilitate meta-analyses on studies of the metabolism of bacteria, yeast, plants, animals and people. Although metabolomics has existed as a discipline for only a decade, it has already provided insights into many difficult-to-treat diseases, including chronic pain. Many more are expected to fall out of the meta-analyses.