NIH Funds Research at Ohio University
Posted on: Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 15:00 CDT
Three professors at Ohio University have been awarded nearly $645,000 in U.S. federal grants for research related to diabetes, Chagas disease and cancer.
The grants from the National Institutes of Health went to Assistant Professor Karen Coschigano and Associate Professors Mario Grijalva and Mark Berryman.
Coschigano received a two-year $221,250 award to research growth hormone and inflammation pathways in kidney damage.
Evidence is mounting that the innate immune system plays a role in the development of diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes, as well as the ensuing complications, including nephropathy, she said.
Grijalva will receive a three-year $201,839 NIH award for his research into Trypanosoma cruzi -- the organism that causes Chagas, a parasitic human disease found mostly in Latin America. He said little is known about Chagas, although an estimated 10 million people are infected with the potentially fatal disease and about 200 million people are at risk.
Berryman will receive a two-year $221,250 NIH award in June for his research into CLIC proteins that might help regulate cell development, including cancer cells. He is co-principal investigator in the project with Ohio University Associate Professor Soichi Tanda.
Source: United Press International
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