SJU Biologist Receives NIH Funding to Study Genetics of Cancer and Aging
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 15:28
in Health & Medicine
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), one of the 27 centers and institutes that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded a $163,000 grant to Julia Lee, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, to pursue a research initiative into the science of cancer and aging. Her research will focus on the maintenance of chromosome ends -- called telomeres -- and how telomeres function in both the aging process and the growth of cancer cells.