Last year, Nathan Schmidt, PhD, published research showing that microbes in the gut of mice can affect the severity of illness suffered from infection with Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria. To learn more about this phenomenon, Schmidt, assistant professor in UofL’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the School of Medicine, has received a … Continue reading UofL researcher awarded $2.6M NIH grant to study links between gut microbiota and disease