Tag: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Brian Peters Part of Multi-Disciplinary Team Awarded $3.9 Million to Study Mixed Fungal-Bacterial Infections

Written by Lee Ferguson

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Brian Peters, PhD, First Tennessee Endowed Chair of Excellence in Clinical Pharmacy and professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science at the UT Health Science Center, was recently awarded $3.9 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project aimed at unravelling intricate mysteries surrounding complex fungal-bacterial infections.… Read More

Research Team Awarded $2.4 Million for Radiation Treatment Study

Written by Amber Dean

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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded $2.4 million to Radhakrishna Rao, PhD, vice chair and professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, to develop medical countermeasures to treat gastrointestinal acute radiation syndrome. Radiation exposure due to large-scale nuclear incidents is a global concern. Gastrointestinal… Read More

Expertise in Gut Barrier Dysfunction Earns UTHSC Researcher Two Awards Totaling $5 Million

Written by Lee Ferguson

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Radhakrishna Rao, PhD, vice-chair and professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has received two large national awards totaling $5 million for separate studies involving the gut as a therapeutic target for treating disease. Dr. Rao is known worldwide for his two decades of research into the… Read More

UTHSC Team Receives $2.84 Million To Study Flu Infections

Written by Lee Ferguson

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Research

Amber M. Smith, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), is the lead investigator on a new $2.84 million award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The award will support a team lead by Dr. Smith to develop a new computational approach… Read More