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Washington University in St. Louis student Julian McCall receives a dose of Pfizer’s mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine.

What Makes an mRNA Vaccine so Effective Against Severe COVID-19?

December 23, 2021 | Shots trigger exceptional antibody response by activating key helper immune cells.

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Attract and Retain the Clinical Workforce

November 24, 2021 | The healthcare industry struggles to retain personnel.

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New Connections

July 30, 2021 | Program provides mentors, community for junior researchers.

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Protected Time for Research

June 29, 2021 | Two-year faculty fellowship supports junior faculty at critical juncture.

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Addressing Workforce Diversity — A Quality-Improvement Framework

March 22, 2021 | "Workforce diversity in medicine, particularly at the highest levels of health care leadership, remains an elusive goal," write authors Lisa S. Rotenstein, MD, MBA, Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MBA, and Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD in The New England Journal of Medicine.

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Searching COVID-19 Publications

January 8, 2021 | International website links researchers, collaborators.

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Thomas Michel and MoD boot camp participants are huddled together for a group photo in tie dye T-shirts in a classroom.

A Community of Researchers

January 5, 2021 | Models of Disease Boot Camp: "Clinical fellows return to labs to pursue basic and translational research after a long clinical hiatus, only to find different questions being asked, different problems identified, and with new tools."

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New Phase of Microbiome Research

November 23, 2020 | Our pilot funding awardee discusses his work interrogating the microbiome to find answers about disease.

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