University of Tennessee Health Science Center researchers Francesca-Fang Liao, John V. Cox and Brian M. Peters recently received grants for their work.
Liao, a professor in the Department of Pharmacology, was awarded more than $2.6 million from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging. The funding will go toward studying the mechanisms by which metabolic syndromes, such as high blood pressure or excess body fat, could increase one’s risk of dementia.
Cox, associate professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, and associate dean in the College of Graduate Health Sciences, was awarded a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research offering insights into chlamydia pathogenesis.
Peters, an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science in the College of Pharmacy, was awarded a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infection Diseases. The grant will fund research into the molecular pathways through which Candida albicans causes inflammation during vaginitis.