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NIH awards $1.9 million grant to study bacterial endophthalmitis
The National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health has awarded a $1.9 million grant to a Wayne State University School of Medicine researcher, according to a press release from the school. Ashok Kumar, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology, of anatomy and cell biology, and of microbiology, immunology and biochemistry, is leading a study on the role of AMP-activated protein kinase in bacterial endophthalmitis.