Henry J. Binder, M.D.

Henry J. Binder, M.D., professor of medicine and of cellular and molecular physiology, will share in a five-year, $1 million research award from the Wellcome Trust and Burroughs Wellcome Fund to study diarrheal diseases in developing countries. Binder, who is also director of the General Clinical Research Center at Yale, will work with collaborators in India and Scotland to develop an improved oral rehydration solution for diarrheal diseases, one of the most common causes of death among the world’s children. He previously collaborated to develop a starch that improves the effectiveness of rehydration solutions by improving fluid absorption. This new study will establish the treatment’s efficacy and determine how well patients follow treatment.