Andrew Storfer, an Eastlick Distinguished professor of biology, received a $2.25 million grant from NSF’s Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease program to study a fatal facial tumor disease in Tasmanian devils caused by a rare infectious cancer that is pushing the species towards extinction.
Storfer, along with an international team of colleagues, will study the ecological genomics of both the disease and the Tasmanian devil to better understand the emergence, transmission and evolution of the disease.