Tuberculosis Study

U.S. National Institutes of Health funds $13.7 million for Texas tuberculosis study

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 16th, 2006

The U.S. National Institute of Health has granted $13.7 million for a five-year tuberculosis research project, headed by Dr. Jim Sacchettini and a team of scientists with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.

Sacchettini said the team will examine three-dimensional structures of a large number of proteins in the TB genome. Their goal is to discover new drugs to treat the disease.

He said the project is the only large-scale structural biology project in the NIH program that will focus on a single organism.

The team will collaborate on the grant with researchers from the University of California-Los Angeles, University of...

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (2006-05-16)

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