$7 Million Grant (IMAGE)

WashU Medicine

$7 Million Grant

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Funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is aiding efforts by Washington University researchers to eliminate river blindness and elephantiasis, parasitic worm diseases common in parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific. Joshua Bogus (lower left), global health research project manager for the university's team, meets with residents of a study site in Ivory Coast.

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