VUMC Team Develops Potential Treatment for Life-threatening Microbial Inflammation (IMAGE)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

VUMC Team Develops Potential Treatment for Life-threatening Microbial Inflammation

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From left, Taylor Smith, MS, Jacek Hawiger, MD, PhD, Jozef Zienkiewicz, PhD, and Yan Liu, MD, and colleagues developed a peptide that may protect against life-threatening microbial inflammation with underlying metabolic syndrome.

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