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Dutcher elected to National Academy of Sciences (Links to an external site)
Dr. Susan Dutcher, professor of genetics and of cell biology and physiology is one of 120 members and 30 international members recently newly elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer.
Congratulations to Dr. Rob Mitra for winning the 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Links to an external site)
On April 24, 2025, the Office of Technology Management hosted the eighth annual Celebration of Inventors, an event to honor and recognize Washington University inventors, researchers and faculty entrepreneurs. Dr. Rob Mitra received the 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship!
Study examines overlap in causes of cancer, neurodevelopmental disorders (Links to an external site)
A new research, led by Genetics Assistant Professor, Tychele Turner, used the Google DeepMind tool AlphaFold and their own newly developed computational tools to model the disease-causing changes to proteins in almost 40,000 families with neurodevelopmental disorders and in more than 10,000 sequenced tumors representing five cancer types. This research was recently published in the journal Cell Genomics.
WashU Medicine Department of Genetics Celebrates 50 Years of Innovation in Genomics
The Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine marked a significant milestone on April 24th, 2025 with its 50th Anniversary Symposium, held at the Eric P. Newman Education Center and Moore Auditorium. The event brought together past and present faculty, students, and postdoctoral researchers to celebrate the department’s rich history and its ongoing contributions to the field of genetics and genomics.
Dr. Rob Mitra Inducted into the AIMBE College of Fellows
AIMBE Fellows represent the top 2% of medical and biological engineers. They include the most accomplished medical and biological engineers in academia, industry, education, clinical practice, and government. Congratulations to Dr. Rob Mitra for being inducted on March 31 in Arlington, Va. along with 169 other new fellows from across the United States.
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