$3.8M NIH Grant to Study Childhood Protein as COPD Predictor

$3.8M NIH Grant to Study Childhood Protein as COPD Predictor

Image Credit: freepik What You Should Know:  – University of Arizona (UArizona) researchers have been awarded a new $3.8M grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate whether low levels of a lung protein called CC16 can predict who will develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) decades before symptoms appear.  – The five-year study, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is led by Dr.…