NIH awards $3.1 million grant for Washington University, St. Jude ALS research
Five-year grant to McKelvey School of Engineering’s Pappu and co-PI Mittag will support study of RNA-binding proteins
March 5, 2021 SHARE Rohit Pappu, the Edwin H. Murty Professor of Engineering in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, received funds to study RNA-binding proteins that are mutated in patients with familial forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have been awarded a five-year $3.1 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, an affiliate of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Rohit Pappu, the Edwin H. Murty Professor of Engineering in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, received funds to study RNA-binding proteins that are mutated in patients with familial forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have been awarded a five-year $3.1 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, an affiliate of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Rohit Pappu, the Edwin H. Murty Professor of Engineering in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University, and Tanja Mittag, of the St. Jude Department of Structural Biology, received the funds to study RNA-binding proteins that are mutated in patients with familial forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
OREGON (NYTIMES) - Scientists in Oregon have spotted a home-grown version of a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus that first surfaced in Britain - but now it s combined with a mutation that may make the variant less susceptible to vaccines.
The researchers have so far found just a single case of this formidable combination, but genetic analysis suggested that the variant had been acquired in the community and did not arise in the patient. We didn t import this from elsewhere in the world - it occurred spontaneously, said Associate Professor Brian O Roak, a geneticist at Oregon Health and Science University who led the work. He and his colleagues participate in the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention s effort to track variants, and they have deposited their results in databases shared by scientists.
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