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Grant supports Duke-led research on malaria control
posted July 15th, 2010A new $2.2 million, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health will support research by a Duke University-led team to promote sustainable strategies to curb the spread of malaria, and protect human and environmental health in regions where the potentially deadly, mosquito-borne disease occurs. Marie Lynn Miranda, associate professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, Duke Global Health Institute member, associate professor of environmental sciences and policy, and director of the Children’s Environmental Health Initiative at the Nicholas School, is co-principal investigator on the new grant.