A $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases will allow Dr. Adebowale Adebiyi to further investigate newborn kidney function. Adebiyi is an assistant professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). With the grant he will focus on the functions of cell membrane proteins known as “ion channels” that are located in blood vessels and glomeruli (delicate units where blood is cleaned and filtered) within the kidneys. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases is a subsidiary of the National Institutes of Health. The award, which will be distributed over a five-year period, will be used to support a project titled, “Regulation of Neonatal Renal Hemodynamics.”