St. Louis Pain Research Forum Fosters Collaboration and Discovery
Scientists, clinicians, and trainees gathered at the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis (UHSP) this past September for the second St. Louis Translational Pain Research Forum (STL-TPRF), an event designed to foster collaboration and mentorship within the region’s growing pain research community.
Personalized brain modeling of anesthetic effects to predict antidepressant response (Links to an external site)
With funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), ShiNung Ching and Ben Palanca seek to develop personalized medicine strategies for treatment-resistant depression that would tailor drug dosage based on a patient’s age, genetics, health conditions, brain dynamics and neural circuits.
Moseley Awarded AAPA-PAEA Research Fellowship
Megan Moseley, PA-C, has been selected as one of only three people nationwide to receive the 2025–26 AAPA-PAEA Research Fellowship. She is the first physician assistant (PA) from WashU Medicine to earn this honor since the fellowship’s inception.
Novel technologies underway to help those with spinal cord injuries move (Links to an external site)
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at WashU Medicine plans to investigate the neural mechanisms behind various controls of transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation in generating different leg movements with a five-year, nearly $3 million grant the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
$5 million funds innovation of more-potent opioid overdose antidote (Links to an external site)
NIH funding aims to accelerate drug development timeline for enhanced version of naloxone.
Andrea Liefer appointed faculty and clinical scheduling coordinator for Goldfarb’s Nurse Anesthesia Program
We are pleased to announce that Andrea Liefer, DNAP, CRNA, is joining to serve as faculty and clinical scheduling coordinator.
Kannampallil named among 24 new ACMI Fellows (Links to an external site)
Thomas Kannampallil, PhD, FAMIA, has been named among 24 new Fellows to be inducted into the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) on Nov. 16, at a ceremonial dinner during the 2025 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium.
$4.87 million grant supports development of sepsis diagnostic device (Links to an external site)
Pratik Sinha, MBChB, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, is leading a $4.87 million Department of Defense–funded project to develop a rapid blood test and handheld device that can identify biological profiles of sepsis patients.