University gets $69.9 million to study potential cause of diabetes

NIH grant allows USF to continue looking at how genetics and environmental exposures affect children with a high risk of developing diabetes.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 4:25 p.m. July 13, 2021
COURTESY: Jeffrey Krischer, director of the Health Informatics Institute at the USF Health Morsani School of Medicine
COURTESY: Jeffrey Krischer, director of the Health Informatics Institute at the USF Health Morsani School of Medicine
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TAMPA —Type-1 diabetes researchers at the University of South Florida will get $69.9 million over the next four years to continue studying how children develop the autoimmune disease.

 

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