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Yale Wins Grant for Proteomics Center
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Business New Haven
11/11/2002
By: BNH
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NEW HAVEN - An $18.1 million award for the construction of a proteomics center has Yale poised to become a leader in a new field devoted to studying a wide range of heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders.
The contract, awarded by the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides funding to create one of ten proteomics centers nationwide. Proteomics, which draws heavily on recent developments in mapping the human genome, relates to the study of proteins and their function within organisms. The contract, which runs through 2009, will involve 21 Yale faculty members from 12 departments.
The Yale School of Medicine also received a $1.4 million grant from NIH earlier this year to purchase a mass spectrometer that will be located in the Yale Cancer Center/Keck Laboratory Mass Spectrometry Resource. The award is the medical school's largest equipment grant to date.
The Yale proteomics center intends to study such ailments as atherosclerosis, inflammation and a wide range of blood diseases. In addition, the center will examine why patients reject organ transplants and chemotherapy treatments.
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