One award, two schools: Wright Center awards multi-school Endowment Fund grant
The Wright Center has awarded a collaborative research team of two professors, one from the VCU School of Medicine and one from the VCU School of Pharmacy, an Endowment Fund grant for pilot research.
Qun Chen, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor at the School of Medicine’s Internal Medicine Department, and Shijun Zhang, Ph.D., professor of medicinal chemistry at the School of Pharmacy, received a multi-school award for their project titled: “Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease progression by modulating ROS generation from brain mitochondria.”
The Wright Center Endowment Fund is awarded four times a year, and once a year, in May, it specifically goes to a team of researchers from multiple schools to encourage cross-disciplinary human health research.
Funds support preliminary studies that enable researchers to develop hypotheses, collect preliminary data, and establish methods necessary for submission of highly competitive applications to extramural funding sources.
Congrats to Zhang and Chen!
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