Graduate students receive heart association fellowships

Zeynep Yurtsever, a biochemistry graduate student, and Daniel Kober, a microbiology graduate student, both in the laboratory of Thomas Brett, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, have received two-year, $52,000 fellowships from the American Heart Association.

Study sheds new light on asthma, COPD

In cells lining the airway, high levels of certain proteins have long been linked with the overproduction of mucus characteristic of diseases like asthma and COPD. New research from the School of Medicine provides clues to potentially counteract inappropriate mucus production.