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UofL researcher awarded $2.6M NIH grant to study links between gut microbiota and disease

February 20, 2017

Last year, Nathan Schmidt, PhD, published research showing that microbes in the gut of mice can affect the severity of illness suffered from infection with Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria.

UofL researcher to educate health professionals in the Middle East about Alzheimer’s disease

February 15, 2017

To educate physicians, researchers, social workers and nurses in the Middle East on current research and treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, Robert Friedland, MD, professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Louisville, has co-org