$5 million for research on immune responses to cancer-causing virus in immunocompromised kids

The Source • October 3, 2023October 3, 2023

Vikas Dharnidharka, MD, studies immune responses in children after organ transplantation. Dharnidharka, a professor of pediatrics, was photographed on September 21, 2023, at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. MATT MILLER/WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a $5.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate immune responses to a cancer-causing virus after organ transplantation in children.