Ohio University faculty researchers win $100,000 grant to study possible COVID-19 treatments

ATHENS, Ohio (WCMH) – Ohio University Faculty researchers won a grant to study possible COVID-19 treatments.

Ohio University faculty researchers received a $100,000 dollar grant to research ways to treat coronavirus infections. The grant was given by the Emergent Ventures’ Fast Grants program.

“This is exciting and welcome news,” said Ohio University President M. Duane Nellis, Ph.D. “The University has been eager to lend the expertise of our scientists to the urgent, cooperative global effort now underway to contain and treat COVID-19.

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Originally published April 30, 2020.