Prevention of a flu pandemic is the goal of a $1.3 million grant to the UW-Madison from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The grant announced today will support research aimed at understanding the molecular features that lead to influenza pandemics. The University of Wisconsin-Madison will collaborate with Maryland-based Lentigen Corp. on the project.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and Lentigen have agreed to broadly disseminate the knowledge generated in this project to the scientific community. Key pieces of the intellectual property created during the project will be donated by WARF to the international research community to improve human health across the globe.