Grants

The university’s Africa Initiative recently received more than two-dozen proposals from faculty as part of its call for proposals to fund research projects on the continent.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received an eight-year $8.8 million grant to study cells’ ion channels as potential targets for new drugs to treat disorders affecting the brain, heart and muscles.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of mortality among all cancers in the United States. About 85% of newly diagnosed lung-cancer cases are non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), of which up to half are stage 3 at time of diagnosis. Long-term outcomes are poor at this stage, with only 5%-10% of the patients with stage 3B surviving five years after diagnosis.

Richards, Laidlaw, Orvedahl, Shmuylovich chosen for their innovative research projects.

Patricia Weisensee, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a $557,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.