Four from radiology named Distinguished Investigators

Four faculty members from Washington University in St. Louis were named Distinguished Investigators by the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research. Adam Eggebrecht, PhD, Manu Goyal, PhD, Abhinav Jha, PhD and Daniel Thorek, PhD were honored for their outstanding contributions to the field of medical imaging. All four honorees are associate professors at WashU Medicine’s Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, and […]

Wearable, light-based brain-imaging tech to be commercialized with aid of NIH grant

Figuring out what’s going on inside people’s heads typically requires huge, expensive equipment and volunteers willing to spend hours performing repetitive tasks while lying inside a narrow metal tube. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are working on an alternative. They are developing a cap that can be worn while moving around normally that […]

Board of Trustees grants tenure

At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting Dec. 2, several faculty members were granted tenure. Their new roles took effect Dec. 2. Granting of tenure Marlon M. Bailey as professor of African and African American studies and of women, gender, and sexuality studies, both in Arts & Sciences; Adam Q. Bauer, PhD as […]

NIMH funds Eggebrecht research on brain function in children with autism

Adam T. Eggebrecht, PhD, an assistant professor of radiology at Washington University School of Medicine, received a two-year $452,702 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Eggebrecht will lead a study that investigates brain function underlying motor imitation in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Deficits in motor […]