Rockefeller virologists and MIT tissue engineers receive $5.8 million NIH grant to study hepatitis

Provided through the National Institutes of Health’s inaugural Transformative R01 grant program — a groundbreaking initiative designed to encourage high-risk research — the grant will run for five years and will fund efforts to elucidate the notoriously complex mechanisms underlying hepatitis B and C virus infection. (Source: The Rockefeller University Newswire)

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Rockefeller virologists and MIT tissue engineers receive $5.8 million NIH grant to study hepatitis

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