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Pardis C. Sabeti, an assistant professor of organismic and evolutionary biology who received a New Innovator Award, said she will use the funds to further her research into the Lassa fever which she describes as “the most deadly disease known...
Genetics Professor Frederick M. Ausubel, who will use a Transformative research grant to work on solutions to antibiotic resistance, said that one of the difficulties of conducting high-risk research is that people are reluctant to fund a project if there is no guarantee that the results will be relevant...
...research station in Irrua, a small town in rural Nigeria, the fatality rate of the disease has been reduced from 70 percent to 15 percent by using effective drugs and advanced diagnosis techniques...
With the grant she will be able to take her research further and investigate the possible presence of inherent genetic immunity to the disease, an advance that could reveal additional insights into the human genome...
...ambiguity can be found in the nature of what Orszag calls the "transformational" changes. Policies in both the House and Senate versions of health reform seek nothing less than a remaking of the entire health-care industry - tying payments to outcomes, encouraging providers to work together, investing heavily in research to uncover which treatments work better than others and building a network to track the performance of individual doctors and regional health networks...