Dustin Baldridge, MD, PhD, Awarded K08
Congratulations to our client Dustin Baldridge, MD, PhD on his K08 award, titled “Harnessing Missense Variants of Unknown Significance in Translational Discovery.” Dr. Baldridge gave us this comment about ICTS Precision Medicine Research Development Services: The Research Forum experience and the advice I received from members of the Precision Medicine Team were extremely helpful in […]
WUSM Genomic Protocol and Consent Developed to Facilitate Genomic Research
Washington University School of Medicine Genomic Protocol and ConsentWould your research benefit from linking the genetic data you collect to electronic health records? Would you like to contribute to a shared research genomics + health records database at WashU School of Medicine? The ICTS Precision Medicine Function has developed an IRB approved protocol and consent that will permit the […]
Seeking Speakers for Precision Medicine Thursdays at Venture Café
Looking to advance your research towards commercialization? The Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences at Washington University sponsors monthly presentations at Venture Café that bring together innovative biomedical scientists in St. Louis with the local entrepreneurial community. The scientists give brief presentations on the significance and current state of their research, along with next steps […]
Mother’s death sets twin scientists on journey to find precision cancer therapies (Links to an external site)
Their mother’s death when they were teenagers set identical twins Obi and Malachi Griffith on a shared path to find better cancer therapies. Today, the twins, both geneticists and computational biologists at the School of Medicine, are seeking precision treatments for the disease. The Griffith Lab, driven by the twins’ independent and complementary research interests, […]
Chan Zuckerberg Grant awarded to Celeste Karch & colleagues (Links to an external site)
Celeste Karch, PhD and her collaborators, Carlos Cruchaga, PhD, Gregory Day, MD, and Oscar Harari, PhD received a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) award to investigate the role of microglial proteins encoded by TREM2 and MS4A in Alzheimer’s Disease and possibly other neurodegenerative disorders. In the WashU News release, Dr. Karch noted that microglia are considered immune response […]