BUSM researcher receives $1.6 million NIH grant for pneumonia research

(Boston University Medical Center) Joseph Mizgerd, Sc.D., professor of medicine, microbiology and biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine, and director of the University's Pulmonary Center, recently was awarded $1.6 million from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The four-year grant will be used to fund his project to better understand how immunity to pneumonia develops and how it protects certain individuals.
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