MAINE: NIH Awards $2.3M to Maine Scientist to Study Cell’s “Protein Factory”
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Emily Spaulding, Ph.D., a Maine native and Assistant Professor at the MDI Biological Laboratory, has received a $2.3 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how cells organize one of their most active internal structures — the nucleolus.
The award, from the NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences, will expand Spaulding’s research on this small structure inside the cell nucleus that builds ribosomes — the molecular machines that cells use to make proteins.
