Virologists Get Grant to Expand They Seek to Find How Viral Pathogens Cause Disease and Are Transmitted.
Posted on: Thursday, 6 October 2005, 21:00 CDT
By Bill Hord
LINCOLN -- The Nebraska Center for Virology -- which includes scientists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the NU Medical Center and Creighton University -- has been awarded a $10.6 million grant.
The National Institutes of Health awarded the five-year grant to continue the center's study of how pathogens such as HIV and herpes virus cause disease and are transmitted.
The center was established in 2000 by a similar five-year, $10.7 million federal grant.
Center director Charles Wood, a molecular virologist at UNL, said infectious diseases such as SARS, West Nile, Ebola and monkey pox virus, as well as the AIDS epidemic, indicate the urgent need for research.
With the grant, the center will hire three new scientists. Currently, the grant funds the work of 38 researchers, 35 postdoctoral fellows, 62 graduate students and 30 undergraduates.
Scientists hired with NIH grant funds have expanded research to include viruses associated with cancer, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
The scope of the NIH grant includes training of new virologists, an endeavor that won an additional $1.3 million grant.
In all, scientists involved with the center have attracted $39 million in funding beyond the original grant that started the center, said Prem Paul, vice chancellor for research at UNL.
Source: Omaha World - Herald
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