The University of California, Irvine, said Tuesday that it was awarded a $45 million grant over five years from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
UC Irvine said the renewal grant is the largest the campus has received. It’ll be used for researching infectious diseases. The allergy institute is part of the National Institutes of Health.
Money for the grant will go to the Pacific-Southwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease Research and its director, UCI professor Alan Barbour.
Center researchers are at UCI and 19 other universities and institutes in California and three other states.
UCI said center researchers would work on several projects with the grant. Those include improved detection and treatment of botulism toxin poisoning; improved protection from and treatment of dengue fever, a mosquito-transmitted viral disease, and developing vaccines to fight bacterial, fungal and viral diseases.
