Taking aim at bioterrorism: UH professor gets HHS funding to battle anthrax
HOUSTON, Oct. 2, 2003 Selected to play a vital role in confronting the threat of bioterrorism, University of Houston professor Steven Blanke has a particular target in mind: anthrax. ... ...Blanke, an associate professor in the biology and biochemistry department, and his UH colleagues will be working with other research groups in this region to develop countermeasures against a wide array of...HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced the award of two contracts totaling up to $20 million in first-year funding to develop safer smallpox vaccines. The three-year contracts were awarded to Bavarian Nordic A/S of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Acambis Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) will administer the contracts....... ......To prote...