Sunday, November 7, 2010

WFU med school wins $6.6M grant renewal - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

http://scottsspotlight.com/2008/08/07/the-day-the-earth-stood-still/
The $6.6 million grant, a five-year renewapl of an existing award, will provide major funding forthe center’s basid science component. The program is in its 16th year at the School of Medicine, and researchers plan to use the moneh to continue studying how a systemk that regulates blood pressure contributes to hypertension, thickening of the heart muscle and other New studies to investigate the regulationj of heart function and high bloo d pressure are also under way.
“Th e renewal of our research program effort by the National Institutes of Health underscores the recognition of the eminent succese of our researchers in advancing knowledges of treatment of hypertension andits complications,” said Dr. Carlozs M. Ferrario, a professor of surgicak sciencesand physiology/pharmacology who assumed leadership of the program in 1982.

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