Case Western receives $4M NIBIB grant
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland has received a $4 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) to fund its Case Center for Synchrotron Biosciences.
The center, which will be funded through 2014, provides resources to support the study of the structure and dynamics of proteins and nucleic acids. The new grant will help the center to continue to provide three technology cores: A footprinting core, based on the X28C footprinting beamline; an x-ray spectroscopy core, based on the X3B beamline; and a macromolecular crystallography core.
"These studies are critical for understanding the normal biology of all organisms and the molecular effects of disease including the design of drugs to control cellular processes and the understanding of the molecular interactions that mediate the spread of viruses and bacteria," said lead investigator Mark Chance, PhD, director of the Case Western's Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics.
The center will support more than 175 grants from across all three cores that are funded by 212 peer-reviewed grants, including 200 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The center, which will be funded through 2014, provides resources to support the study of the structure and dynamics of proteins and nucleic acids. The new grant will help the center to continue to provide three technology cores: A footprinting core, based on the X28C footprinting beamline; an x-ray spectroscopy core, based on the X3B beamline; and a macromolecular crystallography core.
"These studies are critical for understanding the normal biology of all organisms and the molecular effects of disease including the design of drugs to control cellular processes and the understanding of the molecular interactions that mediate the spread of viruses and bacteria," said lead investigator Mark Chance, PhD, director of the Case Western's Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics.
The center will support more than 175 grants from across all three cores that are funded by 212 peer-reviewed grants, including 200 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).