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Dr. Vasant Muralidharan is the winner of the 2015 Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award. Sponsored by the March of Dimes Foundation, the Basil O’Conner Award supports research in fetal and pediatric diseases.

Two PhD students in the Department of Cellular Biology were awarded fellowships from the University of Georgia Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, providing research funding for each of them for a year.

The Wellcome Trust (UK) has awarded a $5 million drug discovery grant to Anacor Pharmaceuticals in partnership with Professor Rick Tarleton in the University of Georgia Department of Cellular Biology, and Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases.

 

Deformed cilia can lead to a host of diseases and conditions in the human body because of a problem related to their assembly, which requires the translocation of vast quantities of the vital cell protein tubulin.