‘Long flu’ has emerged, similar to long COVID

New research from the School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System comparing the viruses that cause the flu and COVID-19 shows that people hospitalized with seasonal influenza also can suffer long-term negative health effects.

Some mosquitoes like it hot

Certain populations of mosquitoes are more heat tolerant and better equipped to survive heat waves than others, according to new WashU research. Vector-borne diseases are an increasingly global health concern.

Board grants faculty promotions, tenure

At the university’s Board of Trustees meeting in December, numerous faculty members from a variety of disciplines were appointed or promoted with tenure or granted tenure.

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Todd A. Fehniger, MD, PhD (left), with Jeffrey J. Bednarski, MD, PhD, and Thomas Pfeiffer, MD, at the School of Medicine, received $1.4 million from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the Rising Tide Foundation for Clinical Cancer Research and Siteman Kids to support a trial of a novel immunotherapy.

Notables

Katharine M. Flores, the Christopher I. Byrnes Professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of ASM (American Society for Metals) International for her contributions to the field of materials science and engineering.

Notables

Elanor Williams, an associate professor of marketing at Olin Business School, has been selected as one of the 2023 Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors by Poets & Quants for Undergrads.