These three-year grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation fund study in henipaviruses – bat-borne viruses that cause severe and often fatal illness in humans and have the potential to emerge as a pandemic threat.
The associate professor of biochemistry and director of the Genome Science Institute received a five-year, $3.49 million grant from the National Institute on Aging.
He received a five-year, $2 million R35 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and, a five-year, $2.5 million R01 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.