UMaine among partners on $11M Maine Med metabolic disease study, Press Herald reports
The Portland Press Herald reported the Maine Medical Center Research Institute has been awarded a five-year, $11 million Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence grant by the National Institutes of Health. The funding will be used to establish a research center to model the basis of human metabolic diseases, according to the institute. The program includes partnerships among Maine Med, University of Maine, University of New England and Brown University, the Press Herald reported. Researchers at Maine Med have been studying how metabolically active tissues, including fat, bone and the brain, use energy and control metabolism in the body. The grant will provide funding to four investigators to conduct research, and will support the expansion of technology, including advanced protein and lipid analysis and bone measurements, the article states. Maine Public also reported on the project.