UTEP Scientists Awarded $6M to Improve Treatment for Chagas Disease (IMAGE)

University of Texas at El Paso

UTEP Scientists Awarded $6M to Improve Treatment for Chagas Disease

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Igor Almeida, Ph.D., right, professor of biological sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso, is the principal investigator of a five-year grant worth $5,713,730 from the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Almeida will work with Katja Michael, Ph.D., left, associate professor of chemistry and one of the grant's co-PIs, and several other investigators from the U.S., Bolivia and Spain. They will conduct a phase II clinical trial in Bolivia with new regimens of the drugs benznidazole and nifurtimox, and new biomarkers for the chemotherapy follow-up. This is the first clinical trial with UTEP as the leading institution.

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J.R. Hernandez / UTEP Communications

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