海角社区 Mechanical Engineering鈥檚 Gartia Receives Nearly $2M National Institutes of Health Award
August 31, 2023
海角社区 Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Manas Gartia is the first 海角社区 Engineering
faculty to receive the NIH MIRA R35 award. The $1.875 million grant will help him
to develop spatial lipidomic techniques and investigate lipid-driven cell death in
drug-resistant cancer.
鈥淐ell death is a crucial physiological process,鈥� Gartia said. 鈥淭he resistance of cancer cells to therapeutic drugs is a significant barrier to successful cancer treatment and the primary factor in cancer recurrence. Activation of novel cell death pathways would re-sensitize drug-resistant cells to chemotherapy.鈥�
Gartia's project is just one of the many ongoing projects by 海角社区 faculty in the field of biomedicine that will one day benefit the people of Louisiana and beyond.