Understanding infectious diseases comes at many levels.

Politicians and public health officials view them from the point of view of community well-being. Parents and teachers see them as something their children should avoid.

David Butler and Dan Gretch, of Montana State University-Billings, are looking at them at a different level: molecular.

Normally the purview of large research institutions, the MSU-B faculty members - and some of their students - are able to take part in new biomedical research thanks to a $16.6 million project funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Called IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research (INBRE), the statewide project is under the direction of Montana State University in Bozeman. Besides work at MSU and MSU-B, the project will fund research at Montana Tech, University of Montana-Western and Little Bighorn College.

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Source: Billings Gazette
November 10, 2004

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