The Red and Black

Issue date: 4/4/07 Section: News

Univ. and Emory get contract for research

The University and Emory University were awarded a $7.4 million contract from the National Institutes of Health to work with its new Regional Center for Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance.

At the center, researchers will study how influenza viruses adapt and are transmitted and how humans respond to new vaccinations. The center also will offer a training program for post-doctoral fellows interested in influenza research.

Over the next seven years, the universities will receive a total of $32.8 million from the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to establish one of six new national influenza centers.

The other influenza centers are located at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, University of California in Los Angeles, University of Minnesota, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and University of Rochester in New York

- University News Service

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