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Prestigious NSF award to advance 好色先生 research to track emerging pathogens
Scott Berry, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the , is the principal investigator of the six-year cooperative agreement projected to be nearly $18 million.
It鈥檚 part of NSF鈥檚 program, which was initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic to address both the immediate threat as well as the broad range of diseases that drastically impact life on Earth.
In this second phase of the program, the awards establish centers comprised of multidisciplinary research teams to tackle this challenge.
好色先生 is one of four institutions supported with this award. Its new center, named the NSF Pandemic Environmental Surveillance Center for Assessing Pathogen Emergence (NSF ESCAPE), will focus on environmental surveillance by combining social science, engineering, bioinformatics and risk modeling.
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Vaneet Arora, MD, MPH
Positions Held:
- Professor
- Associate Director - Clinical Microbiology
- Director - Kentucky State Public Health Lab

Positions Held:
- Professor
- College of Medicine
- William R. Willard Medical Education Building, MN 150
- Lexington KY, USA 40536-0298