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Jump to full article: Memphis (TN) Business Journal, 2003-03-05
Intro: A University of Memphis doctor will head a team of researchers who have received $1.7 million federal grant to fight smoking addiction in Syria, the Associated Press reports.
A five-year National Institutes of Health grant will help launch the Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies, where researchers will devise smoking cessation programs and train Syrian researchers.
Dr. Kenneth Ward, the project's principal researcher, says he hopes possible war in Iraq won't disrupt plans to visit Syria this summer.
Other researchers include Dr. Wasim Maziak, a Syrian physician and epidemiologist and research fellow at Germany's University of Munster.
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