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Print Edition StoriesTuesday, March 30, 2010
Three WPI researchers land NIH funding
By Mass High Tech staff
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute reports three of its researchers have landed a combined $750,000 from the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture for biochemistry and biotechnology research.
WPI professor of chemistry and biochemistry Jose Arguello received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the USDA for research on biochemical processes that bacteria use during infection to defeat a host’s defenses. Arguello is focusing on legumes infected by the bacteria rhizobia.
Associate professor of biology and biotechnology Elizabeth Ryder received a three-year, $230,000 grant from the NIH for research on how nerve cells develop from fertilized eggs, then migrate to form the organism’s nervous system. Ryder’s lab is focusing on genes in the small roundworm C. elegans.
Professor of biology and biotechnology Pamela Weathers received a three-year, $230,000 grant for the NIH for her work on the plant Artemisia annua, which produces a molecule called artemisinin, which is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat malaria. Studies have also shown artemisinin to inhibit the growth of some human cancer cells.
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