Robbins’ Grant Renewed for 45th Year

Dr. Phillips Robbins, professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, has received renewed funding for "Glycosylation and Glycosidases – Cell and Molecular Biology," making this the 45th year the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institutes of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has supported the research.

Robbins, who has studied protein glycosylation and processing for many years, manages the grant in collaboration with Co-Principal Investigator Dr. John Samuelson, professor of molecular and cell biology. The grant, which NIH/NIGMS will fund through 2011, is part of a small group of grants with continuous funding for this length of time.

Robbins, a founding member of his department in 1998, was previously the American Cancer Society professor of biochemistry in Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Biology for 36 years. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine and an NIH/NIGMS merit awardee.

Robbins’ department will honor him at a symposium this fall.