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Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Dental School Receives $9.5 Million Federal Grant

From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

June 16, 2009

The National Institutes of Health's National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research has awarded a five-year, $9.5 million grant to the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine. According to a statement from the school, the 22-member research team will use the grant to "unravel changes in the human body's innate immune system in HIV-infected people on antiretroviral therapies" and to learn why HIV-positive persons receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy have increased incidence of oral complications, "such as a quadrupled rate of contracting human papillomavirus." Professor Aaron Weinberg, chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at the dental school, will lead the research.

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Adapted from:
Crain's Cleveland Business
06.15.2009

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