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Sweet Sixteen: SLU Research Makes Third Round in STAT Playoff Bracket

by Maggie Rotermund on 03/15/2022

03/15/2022

Third-round voting to support SLU’s entry is open through Monday, March 21

Saint Louis University School of Medicine research on vaccination rates and dementia has moved on to the third round of the 2022 STAT Madness bracket, competing against other innovative research projects.

STAT

STAT Madness, organized by STAT News, is a yearly national bracket-style competition to choose the prior year’s most exciting biomedical discovery. Participants continue through six single-elimination rounds before the winner of the popular vote is announced on April 4.

SLU’s “Comparison of rates of dementia among older adult recipients of two, one, or no vaccinations,” faces off in the third round against “Transmembrane transport in inorganic colloidal cell-mimics,” from New York University and the University of Chicago.

The study was led by Jeffrey Scherrer, Ph.D., professor in family and community medicine at SLU. Co-authors include Timothy L. Wiemken, Ph.D., of the AHEAD Institute;  Joanne Salas, MPH, of the Department of Family and Community Medicine; John E. Morley, M.D., Division of Geriatric Medicine at SLU; Daniel F. Hoft, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Internal Medicine and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and the Department of Infectious Diseases, Allergy and Immunology; and Christine Jacobs, M.D., Department of Family and Community Medicine and dean of the School of Medicine.

Previous Rounds 

In second round action, SLU defeated Brigham and Women’s, MIT and Novo Nordisk’s “Oral delivery of systemic monoclonal antibodies, peptides and small molecules using gastric auto-injectors.”

SLU’s research bested Alzheimer’s research from Gladstone and the University of California, San Francisco in round 1 of the challenge.

How to Vote

Voting began at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. The second round of voting will be open until Monday, March 21. To maintain voting integrity, STAT requires voters to register for a free account.

Vote for SLU

You can follow the action on Twitter using the hashtag #STATMadness.