The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which distributes $30+ billion a year in federal funds to biomedical research, in late summer was awarded a $57 million grant to UW Medicine’s Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS).
The smoke-filled air that has enveloped Seattle for several days makes breathing especially difficult for people with asthma and other lung conditions, says UW Medicine pulmonologist Joshua Benditt.
UW Medicine researchers are part of a new grant from the National Institutes of Health developing drugs to treat multi-drug resistant infections like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
