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Lisa
Monday, Sept. 20, 2004
UCI seeks $75 million bioterrorism grant
By GARY ROBBINS
The Orange County Register
The university of California, Irvine, has asked the National
Institutes of Health to choose the school to lead a five year, $75
million program designed to combat biological terrorism and emerging
infectious diseases.
The proposal filed by UCI's Alan Barbour calls for Irvine to lead
about 20 universities and research institutes in the western United
States and Hawaii in studying everything from the botulism toxin to
anthrax to West Nile virus. Barbour is a microbiologist who played a
key role in discovering the cause of Lyme disease and co-developing the
first vaccine to fight it.
The NIH recently solicited industry and academia to file proposals for
the $75 million program, which involves basic research and the
development of drugs, therapies and diagnostic equipment.
UCI is assuming an increasingly prominent role in the study of
biological agents that can be weaponized and used in terrorism. In the
past year alone, biologist Phil Felgner has obtained three grants,
collectively worth about $10 million, to do such things as study the
bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei and look for better ways to
diagnose and treat smallpox.
from the Orange County Register
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Lisa
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