Angela Wilks, PhD, the Isaac E. Emerson Chair of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Mandy Oglesby, PhD, an associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences (PSC), have received a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to study how infections caused by the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa develop multi-drug resistance. The award provides nearly $2.5 million over five years to support their interdisciplinary work in biochemistry and microbiology that will research iron homeostasis and virulence in the bacteria, which often leads to chronic and untreatable conditions.
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