New Grant Glues Together Research Experts to Tackle Incurable Diseases
An international grant to Thomas Kodadek, Ph.D., will advance his lab’s work on molecular glue degraders for incurable diseases.
An international grant to Thomas Kodadek, Ph.D., will advance his lab’s work on molecular glue degraders for incurable diseases.
"These grants highlight The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute’s unique expertise in areas that include neuroscience, immunology, biochemistry, drug discovery and RNA therapeutics,” said Scientific Director Patrick Griffin, Ph.D.
One in five of our faculty holds a prestigious R35 Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health.
Children born with a damaged gene needed for healthy brain development, SYNGAP1, experience seizures, sensory processing disorders, difficulty speaking, intellectual disability, and autism-like behaviors. It’s a condition without any treatments, one that’s hard both on parents and children, said Gavin Rumbaugh, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at The Herbert Wertheim…
Chemistry Professor Thomas Kodadek, Ph.D., has won a third Transformative Research Award from the National Institutes of Health for his plan to capitalize on cells' protein recycling machinery as a way to fight cancer.