06 Feb 2024 --- The US National Institute of General Medical Science, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded a US$1.9 million five-year research grant to help understand how complex communities of microbes impact human health. The Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award has been granted to Jordan Bisanz, assistant biochemistry and molecular biology professor at the Penn State Eberly College of Science. A person’s microbiome may contain several hundred or thousand different species. While research on microbiome diversity is expansive, more research is needed to detail the processes where the microbiota impacts human health.
