Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Kuo-Ching (KC) Mei from Binghamton University, State University of New York and his team have won the $1.9M Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (ESI) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to tackle gene therapy challenges.
Tag: National Institute Of General Medical Sciences
Juntao Luo, PhD, awarded more than $2 million to fund research on sepsis treatment
Upstate researcher Juntao Luo, PhD, continues to attract funding—securing a more than $2 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)—in his effort to find an effective treatment for severe sepsis, which has a mortality rate of 30 to 40 percent.
Light of transformation: Research explores the inner workings of chemical change
Binghamton University Assistant Professor of Chemistry Jennifer Hirschi recently received a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award for $1.93 million from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study the mechanisms involved in catalytic reactions.
Early study points to potential therapeutic avenue for a pair of rare pediatric diseases
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Feb. 9, 2021) — Scientists have devised a new approach for detecting and potentially heading off the effects of two rare pediatric diseases before birth.
SLAC, Stanford to host national service center for cryo-ET sample preparation
The NIH is establishing a national service center at the SLAC and Stanford where biomedical researchers can learn how to prepare extremely thin specimens that are frozen into a glassy state for cryogenic electron tomography (cryo-ET), a powerful tool for directly visualizing cellular components in 3D.