UI Gets $9 Million For Disease Research

Thu., Sept. 28, 2000

From Staff

The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Idaho a five-year grant worth more than $9 million for research into animal and human diseases.

The grant, the largest ever awarded to the Moscow school, “will create a level of awareness of Idaho as having strength in biomedical research,” said project director Greg Bohach, head of the university’s microbiology, molecular biology and biochemistry department.

The university team, Kenneth Bayles, Carolyn Bohach and Troy Ott, will research ways to combat staph infections and E. coli, among other bacteria.

Researchers from the Boise Veterans Medical Center are also participating in the project.

Amy Bryant at the VA center will head up studies on gangrene. In Moscow, four researchers will study three other areas of host-pathogen interactions, or ways humans and animals interact with infectious bacteria and diseases.

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