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Congratulations to Fernando Souza for receiving a diversity supplement from the NIH to fund his graduate thesis.
Fernando is studying how the innate immune system forms a successful granuloma against a novel environmental pathogen called Chromobacterium violaceum. He is in Ed Miao's lab.