Megan Baldridge, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine at WashU Medicine, has received a four-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to study how bacteria living in the gut help the body maintain a healthy supply of blood cells. Low blood counts, called cytopenias, are a common complication of chemotherapy, transplant and long courses of antibiotics, and they leave patients vulnerable to serious infections.
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