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Grant Program: Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease - Deadline: November 1, 2010
 
Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease

Application Deadline:  November 1, 2010
Accepting electronic applications only.

Five-year awards provide $500,000 for opportunities for accomplished investigators at the assistant professor level to study pathogenesis, with a focus on the intersection of human and microbial biology. The program is intended to shed light on the overarching issues of how human hosts handle infectious challenge. The awards are intended to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues of inquiry and higher-risk research projects that hold potential for advancing significantly the biochemical, pharmacological, immunological, and molecular biological understanding of how infectious agents and the human body interact.

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