The University of Arkansas for Arkansas for Medical Sciences was awarded a $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to research a herpes virus that has been associated with cancer.
Kristian Forbes is an associate professor in disease ecology at the Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Arkansas, studying pathogens in wildlife and is especially interested in how those pathogens might jump from animals to humans, specifically from bats and rodents.