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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
Alzheimer’s researchers, aerosol engineer team up to develop rapid screening tools
Graduate students Esther Monroe (left) and Nishit Shetty carry out droplet experiments using a custom-built environmental rotating chamber. A team of researchers at Washington University is developing devices to detect the virus that causes COVID-19 in the air. (Photo: Rajan Chakrabarty)
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As the COVID-19 pandemic surged last summer and contact tracers struggled to identify sources of infections, John Cirrito, PhD, associate professor of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Carla Yuede, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, began to kick around an idea. Could a biosensor they’d developed years ago for Alzheimer’s disease be converted into a detector for the virus that causes COVID-19?
Rajan Chakrabarty
Graduate students Esther Monroe (left) and Nishit Shetty carry out droplet experiments using a custom-built environmental rotating chamber. A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are developing devices to detect the virus that causes COVID-19 in the air.
As the COVID-19 pandemic surged last summer and contact tracers struggled to identify sources of infections, John Cirrito, PhD, an associate professor of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Carla Yuede, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry, began to kick around an idea. Could a biosensor they’d developed years ago for Alzheimer’s disease be converted into a detector for the virus that causes COVID-19?
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Steven J. Lawrence, MD, a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University, appeared on our first episode of Show Me the Science. One year later, he says we re getting close to returning to normal. But he also says we should think not so much about returning to the old normal as moving toward a new normal that may sometimes include screenings at work to make sure you re not sick, or perhaps smaller gatherings during cold and flu season.
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.
Press Release
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital have established the Brain Tumor Center, a multidisciplinary practice of physicians and scientists whose mission is to provide leading-edge, patient-centric care for brain tumor patients while also developing transformative basic, translational and clinical research to develop new therapies and improve patient outcomes.
Neurosurgeon and scientist Albert H. Kim, MD, PhD, has been appointed inaugural director of the center, which is based at Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He also is a professor of neurosurgery, of genetics, of neurology and of developmental biology.