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 Examples of OCT C-scans from a) Normal endometrium, c) High risk pre-cancer.  OCT intensity C-scan (a1 and c1); optical extinction coefficient (a2 and c2); and scatterer shape factor (a3 and c3) of the highlighted sections. In the high-risk pre-cancer, the 3D OCT image revealed more complex, low-intensity regions, indicative of irregular, dilated glands of various sizes (c1). Compared with a normal endometrium, high-risk pre-cancer showed higher irregularity and heterogeneity. (Credit: Zhu lab)

Quick optical biopsy could be early detection method for endometrial cancer

Quing Zhu, WashU Medicine collaborators combine optical coherence tomography and machine learning for rapid, accurate test.

06.16.2026
Jae Park, a doctoral student in the lab of Alexandra Rutz, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has developed a unique, dynamic platform with electricity-conducting biomaterials in which stiffness can be modulated by applying voltage. Such a platform can help researchers learn more about the potential to use conducting polymers to study mechanobiology and to study the effect of stiff environments on cells, which play a role in fibrosis and some types of cancer. (Credit: Jae Park)

New platform explored to meet emerging need in mechanobiology

Alexandra Rutz’s lab works with conducting polymers to change stiffness.

06.12.2026

AI for Health seed grant program awards nearly $300,000 to advance AI-driven health research

Annual program supports innovative collaborations between artificial intelligence and health researchers across WashU.

06.09.2026
Yifan Dai, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, will study buffering, with a five-year, $2 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institutes of Health. Specifically, Dai will focus on biomolecular condensates, which are molecular communities made up of DNA, RNA and proteins, and how they are involved with diseases.  (Credit: Susan Wilkinson on Unsplash)

Inner life of cells under investigation

Yifan Dai to look at chemical processes in cells with NIH grant.

06.08.2026
Pictured: clockwise from top left, Dai, Fan, Rutz, Xu, Lagunas Vargas

Five McKelvey faculty awarded Collaboration Initiation Grants

The program supports collaborative research by junior faculty.

06.04.2026
Researchers in Chao Zhou’s lab used cardiac optogenetics to study arrhythmia and its impact on the brain noninvasively. Using highly sensitive imaging in a mouse model, they found that arrhythmia in a mouse heart alters oxygen concentration in the brain during and after arrhythmia. (Credit: Zhou lab using Manus AI)

Light, genetics provide insight into arrhythmia’s effects on brain

Chao Zhou’s lab induces on-demand arrhythmia in mouse model using light.

06.03.2026
Yan Yu was installed as the Art Krieg Professor March 31. At the installation ceremony, Yu delivered a talk, “Breaking Barriers: From Immune Cells to Classrooms." (Credit: Sean Garcia/Arts & Sciences)

Yu installed as Art Krieg Professor

Yu holds a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in McKelvey Engineering.

05.27.2026
 Ismael Seáñez, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and of electrical & systems engineering in McKelvey Engineering and of neurosurgery at WashU Medicine, and Rodolfo Keesey, a doctoral student in his lab (standing), took an in-depth look at how well high-frequency waveforms, or kilohertz-frequency spinal cord stimulation, actually target the neural structures that lead to recovery. (Credit: Rod Keesey)

Ready to fire

Ismael Seáñez lab evaluates nerve recruitment with high-frequency spinal cord stimulation.

05.12.2026
(Photo: Whitney Curtis/WashU)

Class Acts: Catalina Bernabé Correa

Passion for motorcycles and neuroscience drove student to study spinal cord injuries.

05.11.2026

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