Alzheimer’s research, need for funding highlighted during Blunt visit
U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., visited the Medical Campus this week to meet with physicians who treat patients with Alzheimer’s disease, and patients and caregivers who live with the debilitating disease every day. Blunt, pictured with physician-scientist Randall J. Bateman, chairs a subcommittee that oversees funding for medical research.
New funding speeds identification of drugs to prevent Alzheimer’s
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has boosted
funding for the first large-scale clinical trial aimed at identifying
drugs to stop or slow Alzheimer’s disease in people who are destined to
get it. The trial is led by Randall Bateman, MD.
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.
Four faculty recognized for their achievements
Four WUSTL faculty members were recognized for their accomplishments during the Faculty Achievement Awards ceremony Dec. 7 in Simon Hall. (From left) David M. Holtzman, MD, and Randall J. Bateman, MD, received the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. James V. Wertsch, PhD, and Richard H. Gelberman, MD, received the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award and the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award, respectively.
Trial to test prevention of Alzheimer’s has begun
Finding ways to diagnose and
treat Alzheimer’s disease has frustrated scientists and clinicians for decades. But now the battle has reached a potentially significant milestone: the launch of the first clinical trials to test whether giving new drug treatments before dementia can prevent Alzheimer’s. Shown are School of Medicine MDs and Alzheimer’s researchers Randall Bateman (left) and John C. Morris.
Alzheimer’s brain change measured in humans
Scientists at the School of Medicine have measured a significant and potentially pivotal
difference between the brains of patients with an inherited form of
Alzheimer’s disease and healthy family members who do not carry the
mutation. Randall Bateman, MD, is the study’s senior author.
Bateman named Knight Distinguished Professor of Neurology
Randall Bateman, MD, has been named the Charles F. and
Joanne Knight Distinguished Professor in Neurology at Washington
University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Washington People: Randall Bateman
Randall Bateman, MD, had no intention of becoming a doctor when he enrolled as an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis. As a faculty member at the School of Medicine since 2006, Bateman now focuses his research on Alzheimer’s disease.
Three medical school faculty to be honored by Academy of Science of St. Louis
Three faculty members of the School of Medicine will be honored by the Academy of Science of St. Louis: Randall Bateman, M. Carolyn Baum and Alan L. Schwartz.