A team of Colorado State University biochemists will receive a $7.8 million grant to investigate how chromosomes untangle to expose genes that dictate cell behavior.
The National Institutes of Health on Monday awarded professors Jennifer Nyborg and Laurie Stargell and University Distinguished Professor Karolin Luger the five-year grant to study how nucleosome packages DNA into chromosomes.
Nyborg serves as the principal investigator on the NIH grant, known as a Program of Projects, which is expected to provide funding for as many as 15 post-doctoral positions, graduate students and technicians.
“The question that we’re asking is very fundamental to life, and the environment here at CSU — and in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology — gives us a significant edge,” Nyborg said. The Denver Post
