Bruce Klein, MD and Marcel Wüethrich, PhD, Awarded Subaward Contract from NIH

Bruce Klein, MD
Bruce Klein, MD

Congratulations to Bruce Klein, MD, Subcontract Principal Investigator, and Marcel Wüethrich, PhD, Co-Investigator, on their new grant subaward through the University of Massachusetts, Worcester and supported by the National Institutes of Health/National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID). This project, entitled “Identification of human T cell epitopes of pathogenic fungi,” is under the direction of University of Massachusetts overall PI, Stuart Levitz, MD. The subaward to the UW was funded in the amount of $570,554 over 5 years, with the goal to identify CD4+ T cell epitopes from antigens that human patients respond to during infection with pathogenic fungi including Blastomyces dermatitidis, Histoplasma capsulatum, Coccidioides posadasii, and Cryptococcus neoformans.