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Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Student Awarded Predoctoral Fellowship Grant to Develop Universal Flu Vaccine
ATLANTA — Phillip Grovenstein, a Ph.D. student in the Translational Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. program in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a two-year, $89,658 predoctoral fellowship grant to address the urgent need for a more effective universal influenza vaccine. The grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be used to identify mechanisms of certain vaccine combinations that
Georgia, Metro Atlanta feel weight of unsettled economic conditions
ATLANTA — Georgia is enduring its share of fallout from federal layoffs and spending cuts, less tourism from abroad to a pullback in film and TV spending by big Hollywood studios. But the state’s multifaceted economy is also benefiting from a boom in data center construction, continued in-migration of retirees, and an expected boost to the aerospace industry due to European NATO nations pledging to boost defense spending in coming years, according to Rajeev Dhawan of the Economic Forecasting
