Professor Fu-Ming Zhou
A $1.66 million federal research
grant will allow a University of Tennessee Health Science Center scientist in
Memphis to track down the role of a brain chemical called dopamine.
Associate professor Fu-Ming Zhou
won the five-year grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders
and Stroke, one of more than two dozen in the National Institutes of
Health.
Working in the College of
Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology, Zhou will lead Parkinson's disease
research into how dopamine in the brain stimulates muscle function for
movement, while motor function is lost with a loss of dopamine.
It is one of the largest awards to
the Memphis institution reported this year by the NIH. So far, the university
has attracted 72 grants totaling $24.6 million in fiscal year 2016.
Last year, UTHSC received 84 NIH
grants worth $27.4 million
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