UTHSCT Researchers Awarded Grant

TYLER — Two biomedical researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler have received an $870,000, two-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to help develop a new treatment for serious lung diseases. UTHSCT Vice President for Research Steven Idell, MD, Ph.D., and Assistant Professor Andrey Komissarov, Ph.D., are co-principal investigators of the grant. They are exploring how to use clot-busting drugs to prevent scarring around and inside the lungs. The UTHSCT scientists are one of just 19 research teams around the nation to receive a CADET grant for lung disease research. CADET stands for Centers for Advanced Diagnostics and Experimental Therapeutics.