Professor Susan Dutcher Receives Distinguished Investigator Award (Links to an external site)
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Academy of Science-St. Louis honors researchers (Links to an external site)
Two professors in the Genetics Department, Robi D. Mitra and Gary D. Stormo are being honored as outstanding scientists by the Academy of Science-St. Louis.
Professor Tim Schedl awarded Distinguished Educator Award (Links to an external site)
Tim Schedl, PhD, professor of genetics, is recognized for his significant and lasting impact in teaching graduate students in the areas of genetics and genomics.
Dutcher’s work on Chlamydomonas helps home in on disease (Links to an external site)
The gene-environment enigma (Links to an external site)
Personalized medicine centers on being able to predict the risk of disease or response to a drug based on a person’s genetic makeup. But a study by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that, for most common diseases, genes alone only tell part of the story.
Genetics professor Michael Province receives grant to study longevity (Links to an external site)
A team led by Michael A. Province, Ph.D., professor of biostatistics and genetics, received a five-year, $4 million grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to establish a Data Management and Coordinating Center (DMCC) for the “Exceptional Longevity Family Study.”