University of Maryland Schools of Dentistry & Medicine receive $10.7M NIH grant to study STDs

Baltimore-based University of Maryland Schools of Dentistry and Medicine received a $10.7 million grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to study the causes, prevention and treatment of sexually-transmitted diseases.

The five-year grant renews a previous $12 million five-year NIAID-funded research program. The long-term goal of the research is to develop strategies and the means to reduce the incidence of STIs and STDs worldwide — particularly chlamydia and gonorrhea.

"We believe that this project will generate new essential knowledge into the mechanisms of sexually transmitted infection and disease as they occur, both in the human host and within the microbes that cause chlamydia and gonorrhea," says co-principal investigator Patrik Bavoil, PhD, professor and chair of the department of microbial pathogenesis at the University of Maryland Schools of Dentistry.

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