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Approximately one million Americans are afflicted with AIDS. While treatments have progressed, there still is no cure. AIDS, however, is only one of many infectious diseases that affect the quality of life for millions of Americans every day.
Exceptional faculty and resources allow the Washington University Infectious Diseases Division to achieve both important research findings and high-quality patient care. The division provides special programs that address AIDS/HIV and STDs, among other topics.
For more information regarding infectious diseases or AIDS/HIV, read through the stories and experts listed below.
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Juan Peña
Assistant professor
Juan Peña's research interests include suicide prevention, HIV prevention, adolescence, Latinos, and acculturation.
Expertise: Suicide prevention, HIV prevention, adolescence, Latinos, acculturation
Direct contact: 314-935-9636
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jpena@wustl.edu
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Stanford Peng
Assistant professor of internal medicine
Peng is working to uncover the molecular and genetic underpinnings of autoimmune conditions such as lupus, inflammatory bowel disease and some forms of arthritis. His lab was the first to find firm experimental evidence supporting a radical new theory for what immune cells are like when they're not ...
Expertise: lupus, arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, T cell, B cell, immunology, autoimmunity
Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu
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David Clifford
Melba and Forest Seay Professor of Clinical Neuropharmacology in Neurology
Clifford, who is director of the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (ACTU) at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, is a leading expert on the neurological complications of AIDS and their treatment and management. He has also participated in studies of epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis. Clifford is involved ...
Expertise: Neuropharmacology, HIV, AIDS, AIDS-related dementia, peripheral neuropathy, leukoencephalopathy, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, …
Media assistance: (314) 286-0126 / pattoner@wustl.edu
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Wendy Auslander
Professor of Social Work
The focus of Wendy Auslander's work is health care/health behaviors, evaluation of interventions, AIDS prevention among teenagers, minority health and health promotion, family functioning, and chronic illness.
Expertise: AIDS prevention, community health, diabetes, evaluation of interventions, family, health behaviors, health care
Media assistance: (314) 935-5251 / jessica_martin@wustl.edu
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Shanti A. Parikh
Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences
Parikh's research focuses on local responses to national and global development interventions, particularly issues surrounding sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, and gender relations. Using ethnographic and historical methods and critical theory, her current research in eastern Uganda traces ...
Expertise: East Africa, HIV/AIDS, eastern Uganda, globalization, sexuality, gender relations, social change, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-7769
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sparikh@artsci.wustl.edu
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NIH extends biodefense funding
$37 million to extend regional biodefense and emerging infectious diseases research
June 24,
2009 -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has extended funding for the Midwest Regional Center for Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases (MRCE), anchored at the School of Medicine. The center received a five-year, $37 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to continue to support basic and translational research in biodefense and emerging infectious diseases throughout the Midwest.
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Undressing a deadly parasite
Protein "tuning" system lets scientists uncloak dangerous parasite
May 7,
2009 -- Researchers at the School of Medicine have found a way to dress and undress Leishmania, a parasite that causes death and disfigurement in developing countries. Scientists showed that they could control the parasite's ability to put on its carbohydrate coat, causing it to put on the whole coat, a lighter version or to forego the coat entirely.
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Scientists seek genes of deadly parasite
Deadly parasite's rare sexual dalliances may help scientists neutralize it
April 9,
2009 -- For years, microbiologist Stephen Beverley has tried to get the disease-causing parasite Leishmania in the mood for love. In this week's Science, he and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health report that they may have finally found the answer: Cram enough Leishmania into the gut of an insect known as the sand fly, and the parasite will have sex.
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Flu control tests Obama balancing skills
Associated Press
and 47 others
May 4,
2009 -- When it comes to swine flu, Obama is trying to strike the right balance between protecting public and economic health. That's resulted in some doublespeak and spin, evidence of the inextricable ties between a looming epidemic and a listing economy. Includes comments by WUSTL American culture studies director Wayne Fields, who is an expert on presidential rhetoric.
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Fulfilling a father's dream
CNN Newsroom (national)
Feb. 11,
2009 -- Two Kenyan brothers are in this country studying to be doctors. They are also fulfilling their father's dream of building a clinic in their remote home village to fight AIDS, the disease that killed both of their parents. Milton Ochieng is a resident at WUSTL's medical school. Fred is at Vanderbilt.
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Coated ventilator tubes cut pneumonia threat
MSNBC
and 6 others
Aug. 20,
2008 -- Ventilator tubes treated with silver to reduce infections cut the risk of pneumonia in gravely ill patients by 36 percent compared with similar, untreated tubes, according to a WUSTL study published in JAMA. WUSTL pulmonary specialist Marin Kollef and colleagues conducted the study.
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Study: Failed Genzyme drug may fight West Nile
Boston Globe
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Aug. 5,
2008 -- A failed AIDS drug helped fight West Nile virus in mice, suggesting it might also work in humans against the brain-infecting malady for which there's no vaccine or cure, a WUSTL study showed.
The study led by WUSTL infectious diseases professor Robyn Klein was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Women who undergo breast reconstruction after cancer surgery are twice as likely to develop an infection
The Times (London)
Jan. 29,
2008 -- News item on WUSTL medical research -- Women who undergo breast reconstruction after cancer surgery are twice as likely to develop an infection at the surgical site if they are given a prosthetic implant instead of their own tissue.
The study appeared in the January issue of Archives of Surgery.
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