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When Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD, arrived as the chief of cardiac surgery at WashU Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in October 2022, he delivered a bounty of innovations for patients like Harry Ratliff.

Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare but highly aggressive cancer that progresses very quickly, often over the course of days or weeks.

Thanks to ongoing donor support through The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital, WashU Medicine researchers are making progress on better ways to tackle triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC).

In the future, some low-risk breast tumors may be removed through cryoablation, thanks to a donor-funded study led by Julie Margenthaler, MD, FACS, director of Breast Surgical Services at Siteman Cancer Center and the inaugural Endowed Chair for Surgical Excellence in Breast Cancer through The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital. 

On September 18, 2025, The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital held the Nicholas T. Kouchoukos Research Day in partnership with the WashU Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery.