Curiel, Janetka Earn National Academy of Inventors Fellowships miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
David T. Curiel, MD, PhD, and James W. Janetka, PhD, professors at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, have been elected fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
Ecologist Solny Adalsteinsson, at the Tyson Research Center, and virologist Jacco Boon, at the School of Medicine, both of Washington University in St. Louis, are part of a One Health team studying how tick-borne Bourbon virus spreads through the environment, wildlife and people.
On a cold spring morning, Washington University in St. Louis virologist Jacco Boon, PhD, and wildlife ecologist Solny Adalsteinsson, PhD, flap and drag a large white flag through a woodsy area on the western edge of St. Louis County. Boon, an associate professor of medicine in infectious diseases at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Adalsteinsson, a senior scientist at the university's Tyson Research Center, are looking for lone star ticks that carry the potentially deadly Bourbon virus.
Tick-borne Bourbon virus infects people, wildlife in St Louis area phys.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from phys.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.