BSC Counselor - David Van Essen, Ph.D.
David Van Essen, Ph.D. is the Alumni Endowed Professor of Neurobiology in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Van Essen’s lab develops and uses computerized brain mapping techniques to study the structure, function, and development of cerebral cortex in humans and non-human primates. He is a leader of the Human Connectome Project, which aims to map human brain circuitry in healthy adults. Dr. Van Essen also studies human cortical development in infants, and examines abnormalities in cortical structure and function in psychiatric conditions such as autism, schizophrenia, and Williams Syndrome.
VERIFY: The who and why of COVID-19 breakthrough cases
According to the CDC, more than 87 million people in the United States had been fully vaccinated as of April 20 Author: Anne Allred, Erin Richey (KSDK) Published: 10:57 PM CDT April 29, 2021 Updated: 10:57 PM CDT April 29, 2021
ST. LOUIS If you are infected with COVID-19 after being vaccinated, it is called a breakthrough case.
The 5 On Your Side Verify team consulted the following experts:
Dr. Anna Durbin, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Rachel Presti, infectious diseases, Washington University School of Medicine
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Experts say there are some things they can confirm about breakthrough cases. The cases are rare, symptoms are mostly mild, it’s happening in all age groups and breakthrough cases happen with every vaccine.
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Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD, (left) and Sean Whelan, PhD, collaborate on research into the virus that causes COVID-19. Early in the pandemic, they cooperated to build a laboratory where the novel coronavirus could be studied.
A new episode of our podcast, “Show Me the Science,” has been posted. At present, these podcast episodes are highlighting research and patient care on the Washington University Medical Campus as our scientists and clinicians confront the COVID-19 pandemic.
Even before the first case of COVID-19 was reported in the United States, Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD, the Herbert S. Gasser Professor of Medicine, started setting the stage with Sean Whelan, PhD, the Marvin A. Brennecke Distinguished Professor of Molecular Microbiology, for scientists at the university to study the virus. Whelan had just arrived in St. Louis to begin his new role as head of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and didn’t even have an operational laboratory when the tw
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Feeling itchy? A wearable sensor can measure how bad it is by tracking how often you scratch yourself.
Itching is associated with many diseases and in some cases can be debilitating, but diagnosing chronic itching is difficult because there is no objective way to measure how it feels.
Now, Steve Xu at Northwestern University in Illinois and his colleagues have created a soft, waterproof sensor to do just that. It sticks to the back of a person’s dominant hand, measuring the motion of their scratching as well as picking up sound waves generated by nails on skin.