Large education grant awarded to Clemson researcher

A Clemson University researcher, James Morris, has received a four-year $1.77 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify compounds that interfere with or prevent a group of deadly parasites from getting the nutrients they need to survive.  The research could lead to better drugs to treat or even prevent three devastating diseases that sicken, disfigure and kill millions of people worldwide, including in the U-S. Morris is part of a team of scientists from three other universities:  Ohio State, Brigham Young, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.