The Washington University School of Medicine has received a two-year $8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study a treatment for a tropical disease that can lead to elephantiasis.
The funding will support research led by Dr. Gary Weil, a Washington U. professor of medicine and molecular microbiology, into an investigational triple-drug treatment regimen for lymphatic filariasis. Without effective treatment, lymphatic filariasis can lead to the massive swelling and deformity…
The Washington University School of Medicine has received a two-year $8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study a treatment for a tropical disease that can lead to elephantiasis.
The funding will support research led by Dr. Gary Weil, a Washington U. professor of medicine and molecular microbiology, into an investigational triple-drug treatment regimen for lymphatic filariasis. Without effective treatment, lymphatic filariasis can lead to the massive swelling and deformity…