Worcester Polytechnic Institute receives $968,000 NIH grant for heart cell study

(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a four-year, $968,000 grant to a biomedical research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) exploring the molecular signals of a heart under stress to better understand the mechanisms of cardiac diseases. The research is led by Suzanne Scarlata, Ph.D., whose lab studies G proteins (guanine nucleotide-binding proteins), which sit on the surface of cells and transmit signals from their exterior to their in