Researchers from the Indian Institute of Science IISc have designed a new method to deliver a vaccine candidate for tuberculosis TB.It involves using spherical vesicles secreted by bacteria coated on gold nanoparticles which can then be delivered to immune cells, Bengaluru-based IISc said in a statement on Wednesday.This can potentially trigger an immune response and offer protection against the disease, it said.Caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, TB kills over a million people worldwide every year.
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Cornell University announced April 15 that 12 of their faculty members, including Indian American assistant professors Rachit Agarwal and Eshan Chattopadhyay, were honored with the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development, or CAREER, award.
Over the next five years, each will receive approximately $400,000 to $500,000 from the program, which supports early-career faculty âwho have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization,â according to the NSF website.
Agarwal and Chattopadhyay are both assistant professors of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.
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