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NIH Grant Brings High-Tech Research Equipment to Campus
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 13, 2007) - Dr. Haining Zhu, an assistant professor in
the University of Kentucky College of Medicine Department of Molecular and Cellular
Biochemistry, has been awarded a $415,000 equipment grant from the National
Institutes of Health (NIH).
The award will be used to purchase a piece of state-of-the-art equipment –
a MALDI-TOF-TOF mass spectrometer. This instrument has superior sensitivity and
accuracy compared to some of the older mass spectrometers.
"This equipment will bring the research capabilities of the Proteomics Core
Facility in the UK College of Medicine up to the state-of-the-art. It will enhance our
capability to identify protein profile changes in various diseases, and to characterize
protein modifications and their relevance in physiological and pathological conditions,"
Zhu said. "It will increase our ability to meet the ever-increasing volume and intensity of
work by investigators. It is essential to support the ongoing research programs and to
stimulate and enable new collaborative research initiatives on functional proteomics,
discovery of disease biomarkers and elucidation of disease etiologies. It will facilitate
the cutting-edge research programs that will ultimately lead to novel disease diagnosis
and treatment.”
The MALDI-TOF-TOF mass spectrometer and other proteomics services are
available to all investigators campus-wide on a fee-for-service basis in the Proteomics
Core Facility in the Center for Structural Biology.
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