Julia van Kessel, an associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, is developing a new strategy to solve the problem of antimicrobial resistance.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded van Kessel $2,030,527 to continue her research through 2027, a five-year extension of the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award for Early Stage Investigators (R35), first presented by the organization to van Kessel in 2017.
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