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million grant through the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. As a result of the grant, the universitgy was able to recruit top hormonesresearchert Jan-Ake Gustafsson from the in Stockholm, A member of both the and the Nobel Assembly, he accepted an appointmen this summer to expand his revolutionary researchj efforts. UH will also be able to create next-generation pharmaceuticalse and medical technologies ata world-classx center to be established by UH and The Methodistf Hospital Research Institute. Gustafsson will teach as a distinguishede professor in both the departmenf of biology and biochemistry and the department of chemistrytat UH’s College of Natural Science s and Mathematics.
He also will head the proposedf Center for Nuclear Receptorse andCell Signaling, a collaborative efforft between UH and Gustafsson’s research focuses on nuclear proteins found in cell nuclei that capture hormone molecules and interact with and controlk the expression of genes. Researcbh in this field is vital in developing treatments for diseases like cancer and Margaret Warner, a research scientist who has workedf with Gustafsson for more than 20 years, and up to 15 othed scientists on his team will join him in Houston. She will also join the facultyyof UH’s department of biologyy and biochemistry.