//Clemson professor wins grant to study parasite that causes African sleeping sickness

Clemson professor wins grant to study parasite that causes African sleeping sickness

A Clemson University professor has won a $369,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the parasitic disease African sleeping sickness.

Meredith Morris, an associate professor in the university’s department of genetics and biochemistry, will concentrate on African trypanosomes, a protozoan parasite that causes African sleeping sickness. That