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UMass Amherst Researchers Win $1.2 Million EUREKA Award to Study Disease-Related Protein Misfolding
September 02, 2010
AMHERST, Mass., Sept. 2 -- The University of Massachusetts at Amherst issued the following news release:

Three University of Massachusetts Amherst scientists have received a four-year, $1.2 million EUREKA grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study folding and misfolding of secretory proteins in the cell's protein factory, the endoplasmic reticulum, where misfolding can lead to diseases such as cystic fibrosis and liver cirrhosis.

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