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June 9, 2006
Joseph Mougous, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellow '05-'08) has discovered how toxins from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacteria that causes serious infections in patients hospitalized with cancer, cystic fibrosis, and burns, are secreted into human cells. This finding is critical in the search for new treatment targets for this deadly infection.