Friday, October 16, 2009

Grant For Anti-Diarrhea Vaccine Study In Nicaragua Awarded To UNC Researcher

Grant For Anti-Diarrhea Vaccine Study In Nicaragua Awarded To UNC Researcher
A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher has been awarded a four-year, $507,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center to study the effectiveness of rotavirus vaccines in the Central American nation of Nicaragua. The grant was awarded to Sylvia Becker-Dreps, M.D., M.P.H.