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MANHATTAN -- Noroviruses make most people sick to the stomach, but not Kansas State University's Kyeong-Ok 1xbet online casino . Instead, the study of noroviruses has become his career focus and has now resulted in a .1 million cooperative research grant from the National Institutes of Health for his project.
1xbet online casino is the principal investigator of the norovirus research project at K-State. His co-principal investigators include Duy Hua, a university distinguished professor of chemistry at K-State; William Groutas, Foundation distinguished professor of chemistry at Wichita State University; and Linda Saif, a distinguished professor in the department of veterinary preventive medicine's food animal health research program at Ohio State University.
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&1xbet online casino ;This is my first major grant as a principle investigator and it allows me to continue to study norovirus replication and antiviral drug development, which I have studied for the last 10 years,&1xbet online casino ; Chang said.
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