ASU wins $7.7M NIGMS grant for protein structure initiative

September 29, 2010

By hammersmith

[Source: GenomeWeb News] – Arizona State University has won a five-year, $7.7 million grant from the NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences toward establishing a new center to study the structure of membrane proteins that protect against infectious diseases.

ASU’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will be home to the new ASU Center for Membrane Proteins and Infectious Diseases, one of nine new national centers focused on examining the structure, dynamics, and function of membrane proteins.

For more information: ASU Wins $7.7M NIGMS Grant for Protein Structure Initiative