Two South Carolina Researchers receive NIH Collaboration Award

The South Carolina IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (SC INBRE) is pleased to announce that a team of South Carolina biomedical researchers has received a National Institutes of Health National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) P20 collaboration award. This goal of this one-year funding opportunity is to encourage collaborations between NIGMS Institutional Development Award (IDeA) programs investigators while providing students a broad continuum of research opportunities. The team of Dr. Srikripa Chandrasekaran from Furman University and Dr. Lukasz Kozubowski from Clemson University were awarded $147,340 for their project entitled, “SC INBRE Collaborative Administrative Supplement – Role of Hsp90 in Resistance of Cryptococcus neoformans to Fluconazole.” Dr. Chandrasekaran is a current recipient of an SC INBRE Developmental Research Project Program award; Dr. Kozubowski is a member of the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center.

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