The National Institutes of Health has awarded Kristy Townsend, an assistant professor of neurobiology at the University of Maine, nearly $713,000 for a two-year study investigating brain-adipose communication and how peripheral nerves in fat tissue function. Townsend is interested in how the brain talks to fat tissue because nerves are important for proper control of read more Neurobiology professor awarded NIH grant to study communication between brain, fat tissue