Prof. Straub Receives $1.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to continue research on the causes of Alzheimer’s disease
College of Arts and Sciences Chemistry Professor John Straub, who won one of BU’s Metcalf Awards for Excellence in Teaching last May, is known as a charismatic lecturer. But he is also internationally recognized for his research, especially in theoretical and computational chemistry.
Indeed, Straub recently received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to probe the principles of amyloid formation. The effort is a continuation of his research in this area, which is laying the groundwork for insights into the causes of degenerative neural disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases.
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