Prestigious NSF award to advance UK research to track emerging pathogens (VIDEO)

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Scott Berry, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the UK Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, is the principal investigator of the nearly $18 million award from the National Science Foundation. It will establish the NSF Pandemic Environmental Surveillance Center for Assessing Pathogen Emergence (NSF ESCAPE) at UK which will focus on environmental surveillance by combining social science, engineering, bioinformatics and risk modeling.

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