NIH director, Sen. Roy Blunt discuss research funding in medical school visit
U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt (left) and Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, visited the School of Medicine this week to talk to researchers, administrators and entrepreneurs about scientific research and the need to boost and sustain federal funding for it.
Morris receives top Alzheimer’s Association honor
WUSTL neurologist John C. Morris, MD,
has received the Alzheimer’s Association’s Medical and Scientific Award for
2013.
Morris to deliver Friedman lecture
John C. Morris, MD, the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Distinguished Professor of Neurology and director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, will deliver the 2012 Friedman lecture at 3 p.m. April 30, in Graham Chapel. His lecture is titled “The Aging Mind: Realities and Myths.”