The SRM will come to UTA because of additional grant funding from the National Institutes of Health to the lab of Piya Ghose, an assistant professor of biology at UTA. This nearly $250,000 award supplements Ghose's existing NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences Maximizing Investigators' Research Award/Outstanding Investigator Award.
Researchers in Ghose's lab are interested in how the general shape of a cell and the structures within it influence how the cell dies. Many cells have highly complicated structures, such as nerve cells that span long distances, with regions that are vastly different from each other. In addition to the surrounding environment of these regions being different, the internal architecture of each region of the cell is different.