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UA Steele Center Investigators Discover Answers to Deadly Diarrhea

Pawel Kiela, PhD and Fayez K. Ghishan, MDTUCSON, Ariz., -- The numbers are staggering and heartbreaking: Each year about 5 million children under the age of 5 die from diarrhea, one of the most widespread and pervasive health problems in underdeveloped nations and the leading cause of childhood deaths worldwide.

With a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers at the Steele Children’s Research Center at The University of Arizona College of Medicine are working to address this health crisis.

Fayez K. Ghishan, MD, director of the Steele Children’s Research Center, and Pawel Kiela, PhD, research associate professor, are investigating why diarrhea can be so deadly. “What we have discovered in the lab is of enormous significance and answers the question of why so many children die from diarrhea,” Dr. Ghishan says.
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