Yang (Eric) Li, PhD, an assistant professor of genetics and neurosurgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a five-year Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MI...

The new research will focus on understanding how disease-associated microglia change over time and how these changes may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease progression, potentially revealing new opport...

The Department of Genetics recently hosted the 3rd Gary D. Stormo Computational & Systems Biology Lecture, honoring Dr. Gary Stormo’s pioneering contributions to computational biology. This year’s lec...

Gabor Egervari, MD, PhD, has received his first R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate how metabolites of alcohol alter gene regulation in the brain and contribute to be...

The Gabriella Miller Kids First Data Resource Center (Kids First DRC) is a collaborative pediatric research effort with a goal to understand the genetic causes and links between childhood cancer and c...

A cost-effective screening tool developed by WashU Medicine researchers allows for broader genomic testing for patients with peripheral neuropathy of unknown cause.

Human Genomics - Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) shows a consistent sex bias, yet how sex shapes de novo variant (DNV) risk across coding and noncoding sequence remains unclear. I analyzed DNVs...

2026 Dean’s Impact Award Recipient Michael Province, PhD, is nominated for the 2026 Dean’s Impact Awards due to his extraordinary research achievements. Among his contributions, the Lon…

Position Summary The Ushiki Lab investigates the molecular mechanisms of cis-regulatory function and how noncoding genetic variation alters gene regulation in human disease. Our work integrates functi...

The Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has been ranked No. 5 in the nation for NIH funding in 2025, according to the latest report from the Blue Ridge Inst...

The Department of Genetics Seminar Series continued on Thursday, February 26, with the Dutcher Tenure Recognition Seminar, featuring an in-person presentation by Guoyan Zhao, PhD, Associate Professor ...

A grant renewal from the NIH will continue a long-running study of extreme longevity in families, seeking genetic clues to healthy aging.

Frederick Arnold, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine, has been awarded a 2025 Research Innovation Grant from the ALS Network and ALS Uni...

Aki Ushiki, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been awarded a 2026 Peter J. Pappas Research Grant from the Preeclampsi...

A collaborative research effort between the laboratories of Qingyun Li, PhD, assistant professor in the Departments of Genetics and Neuroscience, and Harrison Gabel, PhD, associate professor in the De...

Graduate student Kia Barclay of the Li Lab has been selected as a Graduate Student Recipient of the 2025 Provost's Research Excellence Award, a prestigious university-wide honor recognizing outstandin...