The $6 million fund was established with a $3 million capital investment from Empire State Development’s Community and Regional Partner Fund and a $3 million allocation from Upstate Medical University through the SUNY Research Foundation.
By focusing on the geology underneath the ice near the South Pole SBU researcher Shen Weise seeks to gain knowledge to better predict the future behavior of the ice, and with it, the potential effects of global warming.
While the project’s findings will be relevant to virtually all drug targets, researchers will focus their work on protein kinases -- a group of enzymes that regulate cell growth, so inhibiting them can potentially slow or stop the growth of cancer cells.
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