Athens, Ga. - University of Georgia researchers in collaboration with Anacor Pharmaceuticals have received a $5.3 million grant from the Wellcome Trust to develop a new drug for the treatment of Chagas disease, which they hope will be ready to enter clinical trials by 2016. Chagas...
[caption id="attachment_4108" align="aligncenter" width="601"] Environmental portrait of UGA Research Professor Dan Colley in his lab inside the Coverdell Building.[/caption] Athens, Ga. - The University of Georgia Research Foundation has received an additional $710,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its research into the...
Athens, Ga. - "CDC, Hollywood and the early days of AIDS in the U.S.," will be the topic of the next Voices from the Vanguard lecture at the University of Georgia. To be held Jan. 13 at 5:30 p.m. at the UGA Chapel, the lecture will...
Athens, Ga. - A genome database team led by University of Pennsylvania and University of Georgia scientists has been awarded a new contract from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease worth $4.3 million in 2014-2015. Assuming annual renewal, this five-year award is expected...
Athens, Ga. - The University of Georgia and Emory University are strengthening their collaborations to elevate the position of the Atlanta-Athens corridor as a national hub for infectious disease research. The two institutions are currently working together on grant and contract-funded projects totaling more than $45...
Athens, Ga. - Researchers at the University of Georgia have discovered a new way to direct a vaccine to the parasite that causes Chagas disease, a leading cause of death among young to middle-age adults in areas of South America where it is endemic. Chagas disease...
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