Nikos Passas, professor of criminology and criminal justice and co-director of the Institute for Security and Public Policy, was recently awarded a grant worth $500,000 for a research project titled “Financial and Network Disruptions in Counterfeit and Illegal Medicines Trade.” From the abstract, the project’s goal “is to develop and evaluate a network-enabled system that will identify points of intervention and coordinate stakeholders’ efforts to disrupt illicit flows of medical products.”

Read the full abstract and find out more about the award at the NSF.