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A 'Nobel' new professorship

Piwnica-Worms named Gerty T. Cori Professor

March 27, 2008 --
Piwnica-Worms
Helen Piwnica-Worms has been named the first Gerty T. Cori Professor at the School of Medicine. The appointment was announced by Larry Shapiro, executive vice chancellor for medical affairs. The professorship is named in honor of a University faculty member who shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with her husband and fellow faculty member Carl Cori in 1947.


Human-specific genes

First study hints at insights to come from genes unique to humans

March 21, 2008 -- Among the approximately 23,000 genes found in human DNA, scientists currently estimate that there may be as few as 50 to 100 that have no counterparts in other species. Expand that comparison to include the primate family known as hominoids, and there may be several hundred unique genes.


Slowing tumor growth

Fugitive cancer cells can be blocked by stopping blood cells that aid them

March 6, 2008 --
When platelet activity was blocked (right), bones had much smaller tumors.
When platelet activity was blocked (right), bones had much smaller tumors.
Cancer cells get a helping hand from platelets, specialized blood cells involved in clotting. Platelets shelter and feed tumor cells that stray into the bloodstream, making it easier for cancer to spread, or metastasize. Research at the School of Medicine suggests that inactivating platelets could slow down or prevent metastasis.



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Faculty Experts:

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Ralph Quatrano

Ralph S. Quatrano, Ph.D., is the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences and chair of the Department of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is internationally known for his plant science work on patterns of embryo formation, and how the patterns lead cells to acquire traits or ...


Expertise: Plants, plant biology, botany, moss, genome, algae, genes, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-6850 / rsq@wustl.edu
Shirley Sahrmann

Professor of cell biology and physiology

Clinically, Sahrmann specializes in musculoskeletal pain syndromes and neuromuscular dysfunction syndromes. Her research interests include motor control and the classification of musculoskeletal pain syndromes.


Expertise: musculoskeletal pain syndromes, neuromuscular dysfunction syndromes, motor control

Media assistance: (314) 286-0111 / williamsdia@wustl.edu


Keith Hruska

Professor of nephrology

Hruska is a leader in studies of the links between the kidney and the skeleton, which can cause devastating side effects for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Kidneys and bones produce factors that support each other's development and maintenance, and when CKD damages the kidney and reduces ...


Expertise: kidney, chronic kidney disease, bone, bone weakening, adynamic bone disorder, secondary hyparathyroidism, bone morphogenetic protein

Media assistance: (314) 286-0122 / purdym@wustl.edu


Joseph Ackerman

William Greenleaf Eliot Professor of Physical Chemistry in Arts & Sciences

Joseph Ackerman
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Joseph J. H. Ackerman, Ph.D. is William Greenleaf Eliot Professor of Chemistry and chair of the chemistry department. His work is concerned primarily with the development and application of magnetic resonance spectroscopic and imaging techniques for the study of functional biophysical and physiologic ...


Expertise: magnetic resonance techniques, spectroscopic techniques, imaging techniques, functional biophysical, physiologic events, intact biological systems, isolated cell preparations, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-6593 / ackerman @wuchem.wustl.edu


Frank Yin

Stephen and Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering

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Frank C. P. Yin, M.D., Ph.D., the Stephen and Camilla Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chair of the biomedical engineering department, is a world-renowned biomedical engineer. Yin heads a dynamic, young department, not yet five years old and already ranked among the top 20 in the nation. ...


Expertise: soft tissue mechanics, cell mechanics, hemodynamics

Direct contact: (314) 935-6164 / yin@biomed.wustl.edu



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Insights Into Cell Movement Likely to Aid Immune Study, Cancer Research
ScienceDaily.com and 5 others

Jan. 9, 2008 -- WUSTL School of Medicine scientists have used yeast cells to better understand a collection of proteins associated with the formation of actin networks, which are essential to cell movement. WUSTL cell biology and physiology Professor and senior study author John Cooper, WUSTL physics professor Anders Carlsson, and Brian Galletta, a postdoctoral scholar in Cooper's lab, comment.


Study suggests new factor contributing to heart disease
St. Louis Post-Dispatch and 35 others

May 26, 2005 -- According to a new WUSTL study published in Nature, faulty metabolism can damage your heart. This new study indicates that bad metabolism could cause blockages in blood vessels, which can lead to heart attacks and strokes. WUSTL cell biologist and physiologist Clay Semenkovich comments.


Need to eat some fat to burn fat
myDNA.com and 9 others

May 10, 2005 -- Working with mice, WUSTL researchers led by cell biology and physiology professor Clay Semenkovich found that where fat comes from determines whether the body can metabolize it effectively. Fat around the belly, thighs or bottom can't be burned efficiently unless "new" fat is eaten in the diet or made in the liver.



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