{"id":1784,"date":"2026-01-28T11:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:01:45","slug":"zhicheng-dou-awarded-3-2-million-fda-grant-for-groundbreaking-research-on-histomonosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/zhicheng-dou-awarded-3-2-million-fda-grant-for-groundbreaking-research-on-histomonosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhicheng Dou Awarded $3.2 Million FDA Grant for Groundbreaking Research on Histomonosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/04\/Zhicheng-Dou-closeup-2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1612\" title=\"Zhicheng Dou\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/04\/Zhicheng-Dou-closeup-2-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"Zhicheng Dou sitting in the lab next to a microscope\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Zhicheng Dou, associate professor in Clemson University&#8217;s Department of Biological Sciences and member of the EPIC team, has been awarded $3.2 million in funding from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The five-year grant supports Dou\u2019s collaborative research with Danielle Graham of the University of Arkansas to combat histomonosis, a devastating parasitic disease also known as blackhead disease, which significantly impacts turkey flocks.<\/p>\n<p>The research, funded through the FDA\u2019s Animal and Veterinary Innovation Center initiative, focuses on understanding disease transmission and exploring existing FDA-approved drugs for treatment. Preliminary studies by Dou and Graham revealed that Histomonas meleagridis, the parasite behind histomonosis, forms cyst-like structures that may allow fecal-oral transmission in poultry, challenging long-standing theories of disease spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhicheng Dou, associate professor in Clemson University&#8217;s Department of Biological Sciences and member of the EPIC team, has been awarded $3.2 million in funding from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The five-year grant supports Dou\u2019s collaborative research with Danielle Graham of the University of Arkansas to combat histomonosis, a devastating parasitic disease also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}