UBC’s Okanagan campus will receive funding of US $100,000 through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development challenges.
Deanna Gibson and Sanjoy Ghosh, assistant professors in biology with the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, will pursue an innovative global health research project titled “Maternal dietary intake alters offspring’s disease risk: Mom’s dietary lipid intake can increase their offspring’s susceptibility to enteric infectious disease.”
Gibson and Ghosh’s project is one of 110 Grand Challenges Explorations grants awarded.
For more information, visit https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2011/11/07/ubcs-okanagan-campus-receives-grand-challenges-explorations-funding/
