University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Purpose
to help develop drugs for the intestinal parasite Cryptosporidium, which causes diarrhea and often death in young children, by developing a genetic tool that uses light to rapidly turn off essential parasite genes to reveal their function
Division
Global Health
Date
April 2017
Region Served
GLOBAL
Committed amount
$100,000
Grant topic
Discovery and Translational Sciences
Duration (months)
30
Grantee location
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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