Research flourishes despite the immense challenges of the pandemic.
WashU Medicine reaches new heights as it climbs to No. 3 in NIH research funding (Links to an external site)

Research flourishes despite the immense challenges of the pandemic.
Read Dr. Ashley Morhardt’s take on the paper in an article in Science.
Facility on track to achieve LEED Gold certification
Read graduate student Katie Lefton’s article in Science Today about astrocytes, microglia, and satellite glial cells.
Valeria Cavalli, PhD, and Guoyan Zhao, PhD, are among the collaborators at WashU participating in the Integrated Research Center for Human Pain Tissues (INTERCEPT) Pain Center at the School of Medicine.
David C. Van Essen, PhD, the Alumni Endowed Professor of Neuroscience and Matthew F. Glasser, MD, PhD, an instructor in radiology at the university’s Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, will create and analyze brain maps of individual people and nonhuman primates to determine the kinds of cells that comprise each brain area using data collected from people and animals scanned at collaborating sites.
“We are all doing important work.”
The Neuroscience Research Building’s 11 stories have been framed and siding installation has begun.
The Zhao Lab is grateful for ICTS, GTAC@MGI, Knight ADRC, and the Movement Disorders Center for their generous support.
“This is an occasion for gratitude, immense gratitude.”