WashU, Eisai form drug discovery collaboration

The School of Medicine and pharmaceutical company Eisai Co. Ltd. have formed a research collaboration aimed at developing new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions.

Precision insights can be found in wastewater

Fangqiong Ling, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, and Likai Chen, in Arts & Sciences, developed a machine learning model that uses the assortment of microbes found in wastewater to tease out how many individual people they represent.

Vaccines’ real-world effectiveness to be studied

A new $12.5 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will support research at the School of Medicine to investigate the real-world effectiveness of COVID-19 and influenza vaccines.

Kemper Art Museum acquires Ai Weiwei’s ‘Illumination’

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum has acquired a major recent work by artist and activist Ai Weiwei. Titled “Illumination” (2019), the piece reconstructs, in colorful Lego blocks, an iconic selfie the artist took during his 2009 arrest in Chengdu, China.

WashU Expert on Chinese protests, Xi’s legitimacy

Recent Chinese protests over COVID-19 restrictions provided a blueprint for future activism to prevent government from infringing on civil liberties, said Zhao Ma, in Arts & Sciences. That could spell trouble for President Xi’s administration.

Notables

Yixin Chen, a professor of computer science and engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has been named an IEEE Fellow in the Class of 2023. The IEEE is a technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity’s benefit.

Notables

Daniel Harawa, an associate professor of law and director of the School of Law’s Appellate Clinic, has been selected to receive the 2023 Derrick A. Bell Jr. Award, given by the Association of American Law Schools’ Minority Law Teacher’s Section.

Notables

Adetunji T. Toriola, MD, PhD, a William H. Danforth Washington University Physician-Scientist Scholar, has received the 2022 Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research from the American Association for Cancer Research.

Announcements

Happy holidays from the Record staff

Today’s issue marks the last Record of the calendar year. Publication will resume in January. For the latest news, visit The Source. The Record staff wishes everyone a safe and happy holiday season.