Duke Awarded Funding To Combat Chronic Diseases in China

Danny Laskowitz

Danny Laskowitz

Published August 17, 2010, last updated on March 21, 2013 under Research News

Duke University is one of seven recipients of a Fogarty International Center grant that aims to tackle chonic diseases in low- and middle-income countries around the globe.

Duke will use the funds over a period of five years to establish a stroke prevention and treatment training project in China, where stroke is a major cause of death and adult disability. The principal investigator of the project is Danny Laskowitz, MD in Division of Neurology.

The seven new Fogarty grants totaling $6.8 million were awarded to US institutions to support research training in areas such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer.

Learn more about Fogarty’s Non-communicable Chronic Diseases Research Training Program.

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