Wednesday, October 07, 2015
The University of Iowa is one of six U.S. health care centers to be designated Prevention Epicenters by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The UI team, led by Eli Perencevich, professor of internal medicine, will receive $2.2 million over three years from the CDC to develop and test interventions to prevent dangerous pathogens like Ebola, MRSA, and Clostridium difficile from spreading in hospitals.
The CDC will award a total of $11 million to the six new Prevention Epicenters, which are based at Emory University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Maryland, Baltimore, and University of Utah, in addition to the UI. The new funding more than doubles the number of CDC Prevention Epicenters, with the new centers joining five existing American Epicenters working to discover new ways to protect patients from dangerous germs.