Repeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses (Links to an external site)
Response to updated vaccine is shaped by earlier vaccines yet generates broadly neutralizing antibodies
Diamond, Queller elected to National Academy of Sciences (Links to an external site)
Recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Curiel, Diamond receive innovation award (Links to an external site)
Researchers recognized for developing COVID-19 nasal vaccine
Scientists aim to develop vaccine against all deadly coronaviruses (Links to an external site)
$8 million NIH grant supports effort to avert next pandemic
WashU COVID-19 nasal vaccine technology licensed to Ocugen (Links to an external site)
Aim is for commercialization in U.S., Europe, Japan
COVID-19 dual-antibody therapies effective against variants in animal study (Links to an external site)
Combination therapies appear to prevent emergence of drug resistance
Bateman, Diamond, Hultgren named to National Academy of Inventors (Links to an external site)
School of Medicine scientists honored for innovation
Unprecedented challenge. Unprecedented collaboration. (Links to an external site)
A look at how Washington University came together in the spring and summer to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak — and to prepare for a fall semester that is anything but back to normal.
Gut bacteria protect against mosquito-borne viral illness (Links to an external site)
Chikungunya virus is spread by Aedes mosquitoes (pictured). A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has found that mice infected with Chikungunya virus get less sick and are less likely to transmit the virus to mosquitoes if they have healthy gut microbiomes. (Photo: Getty Images)
Diamond honored with 2019 Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award (Links to an external site)
Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD, an infectious diseases specialist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been chosen as the recipient of the American Society for Clinical Investigation’s 2019 Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award.
Seven faculty are 2017 AAAS Fellows (Links to an external site)
Seven faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis are among 396 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.
Antibody protects against both Zika and dengue, mouse study shows (Links to an external site)
Treating pregnant women before infection may protect fetuses from Zika
Resisting Zika (Links to an external site)
Undeterred, researchers are tackling a global crisis from multiple directions.
Scientists team up to fight Zika (Links to an external site)
School of Medicine research lays groundwork for diagnostics, therapeutics, vaccine
Infections of West Nile virus could set U.S. record (Links to an external site)
This year, infections with West Nile virus are on pace to be one of the worst years yet. Scientists speculate, but cannot yet prove, that the surge in infections may be attributable to warm spring temperatures across much of the country, which allowed the mosquitoes that spread the virus to begin breeding early.