Memphis scientist awarded $1.66 million grant for Parkinson's research

July 20, 2016

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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