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CSUN Awarded $7 million Grant

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $7 million grant to a team of professors from Cal State Northridge. The funds, which will be matched with $85,000 from the school, will fund research in a variety of areas including aging and women, vascular systems, genetic evolution in plants, migration of embryonic cells, cell-to-cell interaction in cancer, the role of genetics in certain diseases and dementia. Biology professor MariaElena Zavala leads the team that includes assistant psychology professor Jill Razani, assistant psychology professor Luciana Lagana, psychology professor Michele Wittig, associate chemistry professor Eric Kelson, assistant chemistry professor Jheem Medh, chemistry professor Joseph Hajdu, physics professor Miroslav Peric, physics professor Radha Ranganathan, associate biology professor Michael Summers, assistant biology professor Virginia Oberholzer Vendergon, assistant biology professor Maria Elena de Ballard and biology professor Steven B. Oppenheimer

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