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URMC Lung Research Awarded $4.7M to Establish a Respiratory Pathogens Research Center

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Computer generated image of Immune Flu

Computer-generated model of how the human immune
system responds to the influenza virus.

The University of Rochester Medical Center has been awarded $4.7 million from the Federal government, with several options for additional funding, to establish a center to study the germs that cause lung disease.

The agreement with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, took effect earlier this month. The agreement, renewable on a year-by-year basis, could last potentially for seven years. If the agreement lasts the full seven years, contract funding may be at least $35 million, and support could reach as much as $50 million, if NIAID exercises all its options.

Creation of the new center was led by microbiologist David Topham, Ph.D., an influenza researcher who also directs the Health Sciences Center for Computational Innovation.

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Tim Mosmann Presents at TEDx Event

Monday, November 7, 2011

Tim Mosmann, Ph.D., director of the David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology at the Medical Center presented at a 2011 independently organized TEDx Rochester event. Dr. Mosmann's talk starts by explaining the complexity behind the immune system. Then goes on to tell how we're being overwhelmed by new data on that subject and how best to handle that overload.