SMHS Professor Receives $2.9 Million for Research on Cerebral Toxoplasmosis

Imtiaz Khan, PhD, professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, recently received a $2.9 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health to study the relationship between CD4 dysfunction and cerebral toxoplasmosis.

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