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Two VCU professors awarded grants for Alzheimer’s research

Two Virginia Commonwealth University professors have been awarded a grant through the 2008-2009 Alzheimer's and Related Diseases Research Award Fund (ARDRAF).

Shijun Zhang, Ph.D., department of medicinal chemistry, and Tailiang Guo, Ph.D., department of pharmacology and toxicology, were awarded a $40,000 grant to support their research “Bivalent ligands targeting amyloid-ß-peptide and lipid rafts.” Read more.