Notables

Faculty, staff and student news and achievements for the week of May 30, 2011.

Of note

Igor Efimov, PhD, the Lucy and Stanley Lopata Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has received a two-year, $418,000 grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for research titled “Implantable Mouse Pacemaker.” …

Won Jae Huh, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Internal Medicine, received the 2011 Dr. Philip Needleman Pharmacology Prize from the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences. …

Randall Korotev, PhD, research professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $329,817 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research titled “On the Abundance, Composition and Distribution of Anorthositic Rocks in the Feldspathic Lunar Crust.” …

Katherine Linstrand, a predoctoral trainee in the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, has received a one-year, $30,000 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for 2011-12. …

Jeffrey K. Moore, PhD, staff scientist in cell biology and physiology, has received a one-year, $85,731 grant from the National Institutes of Health for research titled “Role of the Tubulin e-hook in the Activity of Microtubule Motors.”

Notables submissions

Submit all Notables regarding Danforth Campus faculty, staff and students to Jessica Daues via e-mail at jessica_daues@wustl.edu.

Submit all Notables regarding Medical Campus faculty, staff and students to Beth Miller via e-mail at millerbe@wustl.edu.

Past Notables

2011 Notables

2010 Notables