Texas A&M researchers recently received $1.8 million in life science research funding from the NIH. The project receiving funding, titled “Structure-Based Discovery of Critical Vulnerabilities of Microbacteria,” will be led by James Sacchettini, PhD. According to Texas A&M University, Dr. Sacchettini is a professor of biochemistry, chemistry and biophysics. His research interests are using X-ray crystallography to better understand the relationship between proteins and ligands. The NIH RePORTER provides more insight intothe project receiving life science research funding this year:
“The overall mission of the TB Structural Genomics Consortium is to determine the three-dimensional structures of proteins from M. tuberculosis (Mtb), prioritized by their relevance for drug discovery. Mtb, the causative agent of tuberculosis, remains a major-health threat worldwide, and structural information on relevant proteins is critically needed to support future drug discovery. Our Program Project focuses not only on solving structures of proteins in vulnerable pathways, but also complexes of drug targets with inhibitors bound, which will yield important insights about active-site interactions for drug design. Each of the four projects has chosen to focus on targets and processes that are essential to survival in the host.”
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Lab suppliers hoping to meet researchers at universities where there is a great deal of life science research funding available will find that Texas A&M University is an attractive market. In 2012, the university received $42.2 million from the NIH. In addition to receiving research funding from the NIH, Texas A&M University also received $15.8 million from the NSF in 2012. For more life science funding information on Texas A&M, including a list of departments receiving NIH life science funding organized by department name, number of awards received and total funding awarded, please read our blog $58M in Funding for Potential Lab Sales Leads at Texas A&M.
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