Andrea is awarded an R21 grant from NIAMS.

Posted by Digital Strategies (Div of Comm) on Monday, June 15, 2015 in Uncategorized.

May 1, 2015 — The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) has awarded Andrea and co-investigator Shane Hutson (Vanderbilt Physics) a two-year R21 grant entitled, “FlpOn: an optogenetic circuit for user-designed mosaics and its application to wound healing”. Graduate student Erica Shannon will be supported on this grant for her work in developing a light-activated Gal4-based circuit to control gene transcription in designated cells.