UT researcher working on life-saving drugs for next flu pandemic

A Univ of Texas scientist has $5 million in fed money & a mission: to save lives during the next influenza pandemic. Robert Krug, a UT professor & chairman of molecular genetics & biology, rcvd 1 of 9 federal grants to develop drugs that serve as a 1st line of defense against deadly flu strains like the 1918 pandemic that killed 50 million people

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