A Worcester Polytechnic Institute team has received a $968,000 National Institutes of Health grant to explore the molecular signals of the heart to better understand cardiac disease.
The research funded by the four-year grant from NIH will be overseen by WPI Professor Suzanne Scarlata. She will lead the team in examining a group of proteins, called G proteins, that are integral to everything from regulation of the heart to the development of cancer, according to the school.
By better understanding G proteins, which play a role during heart attacks, scientists may one day be able to develop molecules that would prevent the damaging effects of a heart attack, according to Scarlata.
