NIH awards Feinstein Institutes $3.8M to study radiation exposure and sepsis

MANHASSET, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Terrorism, acts of war, nuclear power plant malfunctions; the risk of massive radiation exposure is ever-present. Scientists from The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research have been awarded a five-year, $3.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how radiation affects the human body’s immune system and how to better treat sepsis in people who have been exposed to radiation injury.