Category: Featured News

WashU now offers safe and effective, nonsurgical treatment option for benign thyroid nodules

Patients navigating symptomatic or growing benign thyroid nodules can now receive safe and effective, nonsurgical treatments using radiofrequency ablation (RFA) technology or percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI), provided by Washington University’s Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research. The clinic, located at 4500 Forest Park Avenue, Floor 1, Suite A , St. Louis, MO 63110, serves as […]

Lodhi, Millman, Remedi and Silverstein achieve full professorship 

Congratulations to Irfan Lodhi, PhD; Jeffrey R. Millman, PhD; Maria S. Remedi, PhD; and Julie M. Silverstein, MD of Washington University’s Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research on achieving full professorship in their scientific and medical careers! The doctors were proudly joined by their colleagues on Thursday, August 22 to honor and celebrate their […]

Markov, Jasim and Powers Carson discuss a unique case of elevated parathyroid hormone

In March, Alexander M. Markov, MD; Sina Jasim, MD, MPH; and Jennifer Powers Carson, PhD had their article titled “A Puzzling Case of Elevated Parathyroid Hormone,” published by The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine. The authors reviewed a case of a 45-year-old woman who presented to surgical oncology for hyperparathyroidism management. With a history of […]

Representing at ENDO 2024 

The ENDO 2024 symposia, hosted by the Endocrine Society, welcomed endocrinology professionals from across the country while offering a wide variety of programs for attendees to learn about the latest field developments. Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research fellows Priyanka Kesavan Chary, MD; Doriann Klaassen, MD; and Rutu Shah, MD attended and contributed at […]

Meet the Researcher: Marlie Maestas 

Marlie Maestas, a fifth-year graduate student in the Millman Lab, recently published her first first-authorship in Nature Communications. The study, titled Identification of unique cell type responses in pancreatic islets to stress, detailed the responses of different pancreatic islet cell types to endoplasmic reticulum and inflammatory stress. Maestas and her colleagues used single-cell RNA sequencing […]

Contributions to the 84th Scientific Sessions

Many members of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipid Research participated at the American Diabetes Association‘s 84th Scientific Sessions, which took place in Orlando, Florida from June 21-24. Those members include Esmeralda Castelblanco Echavarria, PhD; Kai Jones, MD; Jeffrey R. Millman, PhD; Max C. Petersen, MD, PhD; R. Mei Zhang, MD; and Wei Zhang, […]

Hughes and Merrins receive substantial NIH grant to study metabolic signaling of beta cell primary cilium 

Recently, Jing Hughes, MD, PhD and her collaborator Matthew Merrins, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, were awarded nearly four million dollars in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support their joint research project titled “Metabolic signaling of the beta cell primary cilium.” The funding will stretch from July of 2024 to […]

Welcome first year fellows Hussain, Kontoghiorghes, Lee, and Schulze Goni

Please welcome our first year Endocrinology, Metabolism & Lipid Research fellows! We’re beyond excited to have them join us. Learn a little about each of them below.  Mariam Hussain, MD I grew up in Houston, Texas and completed my undergraduate degree at Rice University. I then went to medical school at Texas A&M Health Science […]