With over 850 full-time faculty members, the Department of Medicine faculty are not only active clinicians, researchers and educators at the School of Medicine. They are recognized nationally and internationally for their efforts to advance research discoveries and improve human health, here in the St. Louis region and around the world.
National appointments and honors
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Dr. Will Ross Receives NKF Award of Excellence (Links to an external site)
Congratulations to Will Ross, MD, MPH, Alumni Endowed Professor of Medicine, Nephrology, and Associate Dean for Diversity at Washington University School of Medicine, who was honored with the National Kidney Foundation’s (NKF) Award of Excellence at their 75th Anniversary Heroes Awards celebration on March 5, 2026.
Ignacio Portales-Castillo Awarded OKRA Opportunity Program Grant (Links to an external site)
Ignacio Portales‑Castillo, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology, has been selected for funding in the third round of the George M. O’Brien Kidney Resource Alliance (OKRA) Opportunity Pool Program. He will receive $50,000 in research support for his pilot grant proposal, “Reduce Creatine in Proximal Tubule to Enhance Autophagy and Protect from Renal Injury.”
WashU Medicine honors focused excellence with far-reaching impact (Links to an external site)
WashU Medicine’s 2026 Dean’s Impact Awards recognize scientists who probe the most basic elements of life and clinicians who translate those insights into care for patients facing critical health challenges.
2025-2026 Internal Medicine Residency Program Awards
Resident Awards Fellow Teaching Awards Faculty Teaching Awards Awards from Your Chiefs / Colleagues
Zhiyu Dai, PhD, Receives 2026 Werner Risau Early Career Investigator Award in Vascular Biology (Links to an external site)
Congratulations to Zhiyu Dai, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, who was selected for the 2026 Werner Risau Early Career Investigator Award in Vascular Biology. This distinguished award was established in honor of Dr. Werner Risau, an investigator who formulated key concepts for the regulation of angiogenesis, challenged the prevailing dogmas about angiogenic factors, and proposed […]
Nephrologist Andreas Herrlich Elected to AAAS (Links to an external site)
Andreas Herrlich, MD, PhD, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the most prestigious honors in the scientific community.
Fan He Receives Evans MDS Young Investigator Award
Grant will support innovate research on inflammation and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) Fan He, PhD, Instructor in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology, has been awarded a Young Investigator Award (YIA) from the Edward P. Evans Foundation to support innovative research investigating inflammatory mechanisms that drive myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). MDS is characterized by ineffective blood […]
Faculty join Infectious Diseases Society of America Fellowship in 2026 (Links to an external site)
Nicolo Cabrera, MD, Joseph Cherabie, MD, MSc, and Adriana Rauseo, MD, Assistant Professors of Medicine, and Aaloke Mody, MD, Associate Professor in Medicine, have joined more than a dozen other Washington University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases faculty members as Fellows of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). They are among 166 new fellows this year to receive […]