Department News

Congratulation to Kyohei Tokizane from Dr. Shin Imai’s Lab! Kyohei Tokizane, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Scholar, has received a one-year $60,000 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the Glenn Foundation starting August 1, 2020 for his project entitled “ Investigating the role of dorsomedial hypothalamus in mammalian aging”.

Congratulations to Dr. David Ornitz! Dr. David Ornitz, M.D.,Ph.D., Professor of Developmental Biology, has received a four-year $2,495,709 grant award from the NIH/NHLBI starting 7/15/20 for his project entitled “FGF18 regulation of postnatal lung development”.

Lauren Walker, former graduate student of Dr. Aaron DiAntonio, has received the 2020 Hilde Mangold Postdoctoral Symposium Award for her talk at the 79th Society for Developmental Biology Meeting. Lauren is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Michael Granato’s lab.

Douglas F. Covey, the Andrew C. and Barbara B. Taylor Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, will receive the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Congratulations to Dr. Doug Covey! To read  more, click here

Scientists generate early stem cells that form human placenta Such cells aid efforts to understand miscarriage, preterm birth, other pregnancy complications To read more, click here

We are delighted to announce that Geoffrey Goodhill, Ph.D., will be joining Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis on January 1, 2021, to be dually appointed as Professor in the departments of Developmental Biology and Neuroscience. In his interdisciplinary research Dr. Goodhill combines mathematical and experimental approaches to investigate the computational principles underlying […]

Margot Williams, Ph.D., a former Postdoctoral Fellow in Lila Solnica-Krezel’s laboratory, received the IZFS 2020 Chi-Bin Chien Award. Margot is currently an Assistant Professor in the Center for Precision Environmental Health and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Baylor College of Medicine. Her outstanding research contributions and dedication to the zebrafish field truly […]

Congratulations to Mitsukuni Yoshida! Mitsukuni Yoshida, a MSTP student in Dr. Shin Imai’s laboratory in the Neuroscience Program, has received the 2020 Needleman Prize! The Needleman Prize is presented to a graduating student who has demonstrated outstanding achievements in the field of Pharmacology.

Congratulations to Kel Vin Woo, MD, PhD! Kel Vin Wo, Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. David Ornitz’s Lab, has received a $100,000 ENTELLIGENCE Young Investigator Program Award through Actelion Pharmaceuticals for his project entitled “Endothelial Drug Targets for Hypoxia-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension”.

Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Yoo! Andrew Yoo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Developmental Biology has received a two-year $556,983 grant award from CHDI Foundation starting 2/1/2020 for his project entitled “Identification and Implication of Epigenetic Dysregulation in Huntington’s Disease using Directly Reprogrammed Patient Neurons”.