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Can Sungar receives Knowlton Incentive for Excellence Award
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) Program Q&A
Rachel Presti conducts study that is a game changes for HIV prevention (Links to an external site)
Drs. Laura Marks, a clinical fellow in infectious diseases and Mike Durkin, assistant professor of medicine, conduct study that shows oral antibiotics work, shorten hospital stay for IV drug users with infections (Links to an external site)
Joel Shilling receives Benico Barzilai Teaching Award
Deborah Lenschow receives COVID-19 Research Funding (Links to an external site)
Deborah was awarded a COVID-19 Research Funding Program grant from The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the ICTS titled “Evaluation of SARS-CoV2 Papain-like Protease Inhibitors as a Novel Treatment for COVID-19.”
Rachel Presti receives COVID-19 Research Funding (Links to an external site)
Rachel Awarded a COVID-19 Research Funding Program grant from The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the ICTS titled “Clinical Predictors of Longitudinal Antibody Response to SARS-CoV-2.”
Kory Lavine receives a NIH Award
Kory and Daniel Kreisel, MD, PhD: Were awarded a $2.5 million grant over four years from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
Jennifer Alexander Brett receives NIH R01
Jennifer receives a R01 from the NHLBI starting July 1, 2020 for her project titled “Non-Classical Cytokine Secretion in Chronic Airway Disease”.
Juan Calix, MD, PhD receives NIH K08 and joins the Dept of Medicine
Juan was awarded a NIH K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award for project titled, “Defining microbial and host determinants of Acinetobacter survival in the urinary tract”. Juan was also promoted to Instructor in Infectious Diseases
Dr. Patrick Grierson joins the Department of Medicine (Links to an external site)
On the front lines: Jeffrey Henderson, Infectious diseases specialist describes how COVID-19 plasma therapy works (Links to an external site)
Infectious diseases specialist Jeffrey Henderson, MD, PhD, an associate professor of medicine and of molecular microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, explains plasma therapy and how it is being used in patients with COVID-19.
Dr. Jonathan Moreno joins the Department of Medicine (Links to an external site)
Dr. Jonathan Moreno joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology as an Instructor in July, 2020.