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Virginia Tech professor receives $1.85 million NIH grant to study sepsis

Caroline Jones (left), assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science, studies sepsis. Udaya Sree Datla (back), Ph.D. student in translational biology, medicine, and health, watches as Brittany Boribong (front), Ph.D. candidate in genetics, bioinformatics, and computational biology, focuses the microscope on her microfluidic competitive chemotaxis-chip. Photo credit: Alex Crookshanks.

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Caroline Jones (left), assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science, studies sepsis. Udaya Sree Datla (back), Ph.D. student in translational biology, medicine, and health, watches as Brittany Boribong (front), Ph.D. candidate in genetics, bioinformatics, and computational biology, focuses the microscope on her microfluidic competitive chemotaxis-chip. Photo credit: Alex Crookshanks.

Caroline Jones, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science and Center for Engineered Health faculty, received a $1.85 million MIRA R35 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to study the factors that underlie the decision-making processes that determine immune cell migration, differentiation, and activation in response to sepsis.

Her collaboration with Liwu Li, a professor of biological sciences in the College of Science, and Center for Engineered Health faculty, has resulted in a paper ,published in Frontiers in Immunology.

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