CMU chemistry professor and students leading the fight against tuberculosis

Benjamin Swarts, assistant professor of chemistry in Central Michigan University's College of Science and Technology, has been awarded a $420,085 grant from the National Institutes of Health along with Peter Woodruff, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Southern Maine. Led by Swarts, the NIH grant will support their research of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the strain of bacteria that causes tuberculosis.