{"645260":{"#nid":"645260","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"NIH awards grants to support bacteriophage therapy research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nih.gov\u0022\u003ENational Institutes of Health\u003C\/a\u003E, has awarded $2.5 million in grants to 12 institutes around the world to support research on bacteriophage therapy. These awards represent NIAID\u0026rsquo;s first series of grants focused exclusively on research on this therapy, an emerging field that could yield new ways to fight antimicrobial-resistant bacteria. \u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/sam-brown\u0022\u003ESam Brown\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Biological Sciences, will serve as principal investigator for a proposal that will build\u0026nbsp;re-usable phage and antibiotic treatments via exploitation of bacteria-phage co-evolutionary dynamics\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-03-11 21:06:47","changed_gmt":"2021-03-11 21:06:47","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"University of San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nih.gov\/news-events\/news-releases\/nih-awards-grants-support-bacteriophage-therapy-research","dateline":{"date":"2021-03-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-03-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"167225","name":"Sam Brown"},{"id":"2076","name":"NIH"},{"id":"176611","name":"NIAID"},{"id":"1003","name":"Infectious diseases"},{"id":"187274","name":"phage threrapy"},{"id":"175574","name":"phages"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}