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A warm congratulations to University of Maryland’s Department of Veterinary Medicine’s faculty member, Dr. Utpal Pal. Dr. Pal and two other investigators were awarded an Investigator Initiated Program (P01) grant, "Tick Immune Signaling, Microbiota, and Acquisition of Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum" by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant is funded between 07/13/2018 – 06/30/2023 in a total amount of $7,728,265. Dr. Pal will serve as the contact Principal Investigator (PI) with two other PIs from Yale University and University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Pal is also the Program Director and PI of an administrative core that will coordinate research across four universities.
