March 5, 2008
NIH Receives Gates Foundation Grant to Investigate Role of Iron Supplements in Malaria
The National Institutes of Health has received a grant from the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to establish a research program
to find the best ways to diagnose and treat iron deficiency and
better understand its interaction with malaria and infectious diseases
in parts of the world where such diseases are common. The Gates
Foundation grant is $9.3 million over a five-year period.
