[caption id="attachment_33902" align="alignright" width="350"] Evan Scott, PhD[/caption] University of Virginia School of Medicine biomedical engineering professor Evan Scott, PhD, has been awarded a $2.5 million NIH grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop nanotherapeutic strategies for the treatment of chronic Chagas disease (CD). Also known as American trypanosomiasis, CD is a serious public health problem throughout the western hemisphere caused by the parasite ...