Einstein Awarded NIH Grant to Study Drug-Resistant TB
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - 12:50
in Health & Medicine
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University a five-year, $3.9 million grant to study how extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is transmitted in rural South Africa. The findings could alter public health approaches for controlling the XDR-TB epidemic in the developing world.