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Notre Dame Professor Receives $1.9 Million Grant for TB Research

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Friday, July 30, 2010

SOUTH BEND -- Marvin Miller, a chemistry professor at the University of Notre Dame, has received a $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for tuberculosis research.

Miller and his research group aim to understand TB's essential iron sequestration machinery and develop novel anti-TB agents.

The grant also will help the laboratory advance its current lead small molecule anti-TB agents, which are nanomolar inhibitors of drug-resistant strains, through pre-clinical development, patenting and potential partnering with industry to bring new treatments to the marketplace. The lab's TB research includes collaborations with researchers at the NIH, DowAgroScience, the Eli Lilly TB Initiative and researchers in India, China and Germany.

Miller is co-founder of PracticaChem LLP and has 20 issued patents.

 

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