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Category: Dougherty

$12 million grant funds studies of role of genes in autism, similar diagnoses (Links to an external site)

June 16, 2025June 16, 2025

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received an $11.85 million grant to create a resource for the WashU and national research communities to study the growing number of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders known to be caused by a single gene mutation.

Study points to new approach to clearing toxic waste from brain (Links to an external site)

August 24, 2022March 12, 2024

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a new druggable pathway that potentially could be used to help prevent Alzheimer’s dementia.

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