Chemical security

In Search of Drugs to Treat Chemical Terrorist Attack Victims

Finding treatment for victims of a chemical weapons attack seems as one of the priorities of the US National Institute of Health (NIH). The institute has awarded Rutgers University over $19 million research grant for the next five years. The research aims to lead the development of drugs to treat toxicity from chemical agents used in a terrorist attack.

The grant provides scientists at Rutgers, New York Medical College, and Lehigh University the funds they need to continue a decades-long collaboration, aimed at devising drug therapies to use if deadly chemical poisons were released into the general population. Over the course of this project, NIH has provided more than $60 million to these investigators for research.