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UGA-led influenza research receives more than $7 million from NIH

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, recently exercised multiple options totaling more than $7 million to the University of Georgia Center for Influenza Disease and Emergence Research (CIDER) under Contract 75N93019C00018. The latest executed option brings the total federal investment in CIDER’s work to more than $18 million since NIAID’s initial award in 2021. CIDER is based at UGA and is led by S. Mark Tompkins, PhD, professor of infectious diseases in the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine.

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