UTMB receives over $6 million to develop treatment for deadly Ebola and Marburg viruses

(University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) A University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researcher virologist Alex Bukreyev, professor of pathology, has been awarded two National Institutes of Health grants and a Department of Defense grant totaling more than $6 million to develop experimental drugs against both Ebola and Marburg. Each funded study involves collaborations among teams with different areas of expertise led by Christopher Basler, professor of microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news