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- 1Jordan Smelski Foundation gift funds Purdue amoeba research▼Significant Gift from Jordan Smelski Foundation will fuel Purdue Veterinary Medicine research on deadly brain eating amoeba
The Jordan Smelski Foundation has made a significant gift to Purdue University's College of Veterinary Medicine to support research into Naegleria fowleri, the deadly brain-eating amoeba. The funding will advance scientific work on the infection, which is rare but almost always fatal. The foundation is named after Jordan Smelski, who died from the amoeba infection.