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ZeNan Li Chang – 2024 AGA Research Foundation awardee (Links to an external site)

ZeNan Li Chang, MD, PhD, Division of Gastroenterology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, received the 2024 American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Fellowship-to-Faculty Transition Award. The AGA program serves as a catalyst for discovery and career growth among the most promising researchers in gastroenterology and hepatology. “This year’s awardees are an exceptional group of investigators […]

Stefan Tarnawsky, MD, Ph.D. Receives ASH Research Training Award for Fellows (Links to an external site)

The Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine is proud to announce that third-year fellow, Stefan Tarnawsky, M.D., Ph.D, has been selected by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) to participate in the 2024 Research Training Award for Fellows (RTAF). He is one of 17 outstanding fellows across the country selected for this highly competitive award, and one of […]

Jeffrey Koenitzer, MD, PhD receives American Lung Association Dalsemer Interstitial Research Grant (Links to an external site)

The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care is proud to announce Dr. Jeffrey Koenitzer as the recipient of the 2024 American Lung Association® Dalsemer Interstitial Research Grant. This grant underscores the importance of Dr. Koenitzer’s investigation of the mechanisms and biology of interstitial lung disease. This two-year award will support Dr. Koenitzer’s trailblazing research project […]

Dr. Todd Fehniger Named to Lymphoma Research Foundation Advisory Board (Links to an external site)

Todd Fehniger, MD, PhD, a Washington University physician-scientist who treats patients at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, has been appointed a member of the scientific advisory board of the Lymphoma Research Foundation. The board comprises 45 world-renowned lymphoma experts, who guide the planning of the foundation’s research program. They select […]

Jimenez Receives Harold Amos Faculty Development Award (Links to an external site)

Assistant Professor of Medicine Jesus Jimenez, MD, PhD has been announced as a recipient of the 2024 Harold Amos Faculty Development Award. Dr. Jimenez also recently received K08 funding for his project “CD40 Immunotherapy Effect on the Cardiac Immune Landscape and Response to Myocardial Disease”. The Washington University Cardiovascular Division now has the distinction of […]

Celebrating the Achievements of Professor Emeritus Stuart Kornfeld (Links to an external site)

Dr. Stuart A. Kornfeld, an esteemed figure in the field of medicine, began his illustrious journey at Washington University School of Medicine, earning his medical degree in 1962 following his undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College, where he majored in zoology. He is also an alumnus of Ladue Horton Watkins High School in St. Louis. His […]

Timothy J. Ley, MD (left), Joseph L. Goldstein, MD, and Stuart Kornfeld, MD, attend the 2023 Physician-Scientist Symposium Oct. 17 in the Eric P. Newman Education Center. (Links to an external site)

Goldstein, a Nobel Prize winner, gave a lecture titled “How to Solve a Scientific Puzzle: Clues from Stockholm and Broadway.” Kornfeld started the Department of Medicine’s Physician-Scientist Training Program many years ago. (Photo: Jerry Naunheim Jr./Washington University)

George B. Kyei, MBChB, PhD, PSTP Alumni & ID faculty, received Global Health Seed Funding award (Links to an external site)

In an effort to that will amplify Washington University’s “global perspective” (one of the guiding principles of the university’s “Here and Next” Strategic Plan), the Global Health Center at the Institute for Public Health and Department of Medicine, Washington University McDonnell International Scholars Academy and the Africa Initiative have awarded global health seed funding to […]

Dr. David Rawnsley joins the Department of Medicine (Links to an external site)

Dr. David Rawnsley joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology as an instructor in July of 2022. After completing undergraduate training in biology at Duke University, Dr. Rawnsley chose to pursue dual MD, PhD training in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Pennsylvania. During his PhD training, he joined […]

Christine Yokoyama, MD, PhD received the Dermatology Foundation 2023 Dermatologist Investigator Research Fellow Award (Links to an external site)

Dr. Christine Yokoyama, Instructor in Medicine in the Division of Dermatology was announced as one the 2023 Dermatology Foundation Research Award Recipients. Dr. Yokoyama is Graduate of the Washington University Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) and currently a member of the Oliver Langenberg Physician Scientist Training Program, (PSTP).

David Russler-Germain, MD, PhD, Receives 2 Fellowship Awards (Links to an external site)

In his LRF research, Dr. Russler-Germain aims to study how mutations in a gene known as ZNF608 may contribute to the formation of lymphoma. “From our preliminary understanding of ZNF608, we hypothesize it plays a key role in protecting B cells from inappropriate activation of the machinery normally used by immune cells to alter their […]

Laura Marks, MD, PhD (PSTP Alumni), contributes to American Heart Association statement on injective drug use infective endocarditis (Links to an external site)

In August 2022, the American Heart Association released a statement outlining new recommended guidelines for managing infective endocarditis in people who inject drugs, providing a timely and comprehensive approach to the management of the disease than what was previously provided by the AHA. With the incidences of infective endocarditis cases among people who inject drugs is on […]