UA Receives Grand Challenges Exploration Grants
Two researchers in the UA School of Plant Sciences and members of the BIO5 Institute have been awarded grants by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for research addressing global health challenges. Zhongguo Xiong and Monica Schmidt are among more than 80 Grand Challenges Explorations grant recipients. Xiong is working to develop a disease-resistant strain of the food crop cassavas, while Schmidt is hoping to produce a groundnut free of the potent carcinogenic compound aflatoxin.
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