Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Pitt gets $16M NIH contract for HIV studies

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine on Monday received a $16 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a center to study how the virus that causes AIDS interacts with other cells.

The grant will be used to establish the Pittsburgh Center for HIV Protein Interactions, according to a news release

The center will focus on developing methods for understanding what happens to the HIV virus, both structurally and at an atomic level, immediately after it enters the cell.read more

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