Pitt Chronicle

The University of Pittsburgh Center for Vaccine Research has received an $11.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop new strategies to control tuberculosis (TB), a contagious disease that infects one-third of the world’s population and kills almost two million people every year.

A consortium of three universities—Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and West Virginia University (WVU)—will receive up to $26 million in funding over the next two years to develop clean and efficient technologies for the use of fossil fuels. The results of the consortium’s work could reduce regional as well as national dependence on foreign oil.