{"id":69366,"date":"2011-02-03T13:44:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T19:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=69366"},"modified":"2011-02-04T13:49:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T19:49:12","slug":"uthsct-scientist-awarded-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=69366","title":{"rendered":"UTHSCT Scientist Awarded Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=69367\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69367\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/02\/thumb_UTHSCT-150x109.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_UTHSCT\" width=\"150\" height=\"109\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-69367\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8212; A biomedical researcher at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler has been awarded a $377,500 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how and why the lung scars. Hua Tang, Ph.D., will use the two-year grant to study a specific protein \u2013 protein kinase D (PKD) \u2013 and its role in lung scarring. PKD appears to direct the lung cells to form scars, but it\u2019s unclear how it does so.<br \/>\nAccording to a UTHSCT news release, his research could lead to new ways to effectively treat lung scarring, a chronic and progressive disease that kills about 40,000 Americans each year, according to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a rare disease, but very dangerous. Only 20 percent of those diagnosed with lung scarring are alive five years after diagnosis,\u201d Dr. Tang said.   Currently, the only effective treatment for lung scarring is a lung transplant, said UTHSCT Vice President for Research Steven Idell, MD, Ph.D. And lung transplants last on average just five or 10 years. \u201cThere\u2019s a need for better treatment. Scientists like Dr. Tang will lead the way in developing these treatments,\u201d Dr. Idell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A biomedical researcher at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler has been awarded a $377,500 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how and why the lung scars. Hua Tang, Ph.D., will use the two-year grant to study a specific protein \u2013 protein kinase D (PKD) \u2013 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=69366\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UTHSCT Scientist Awarded Grant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 18:40:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69366"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69745,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69366\/revisions\/69745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}