Sep 11, 2024
Kelly Dooley, MD, PhD, MPH, Addison B. Scoville Jr. Professor of Medicine and director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, has received a MERIT Award (Method to Extend Research in Time Award) from the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). One of 15 MERIT awards that will be issued by the NIAID this year, this new grant serves to expand an ongoing international TB prevention trial to include pregnant women, children and people receiving certain drugs for HIV infection.