Grant advances drug discovery research against a parasite and a fungus

Pablo Sobrado, assistant professor of biochemistry with the Fralin Life Science Institute at Virginia Tech, has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance his research on a unique sugar that occurs both in the cells of the parasite that causes Chagas' disease in millions of people and in the cells of a fungus that causes disease in immuno-compromised individuals.