Former COBRE Small Grants Program awardee, Angel Yanagihara, attended the Military Health System Research Symposium, held in Kissimmee, Florida, on August 19-21 2019, where she presented findings from a collaborative project, entitled “Lethal Box Jellyfish Envenomation Syndromes”, conducted with Cat…

Dr. Axel T. Lehrer, a former COBRE Small Grants Program awardee, and his research team have successfully developed a recombinant subunit protein-based vaccine for Zika virus. Previously, he demonstrated that this vaccine was effective in protecting mice from Zika virus challenge. These studies have …

The 20-year pursuit of developing effective treatment regimens for box jellyfish envenomation by Angel Yanagihara, a Fulbright Specialist and former COBRE Small Grants Program awardee, is featured in the November 9, 2018 issue of Science.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/jellyfish-almost-kil...

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