Salk scientists receive $1.5 million from The Conrad Prebys Foundation's inaugural grant cycle

(Salk Institute) Salk Professor Thomas Albright has been awarded $1 million and Assistant Professor Edward Stites awarded $500,000 by The Conrad Prebys Foundation as part of its inaugural round of grants. The funding will support Albright's project looking at how our visual sense changes as we age or gain experience at new visual tasks, and Stites' project investigating how specific FDA-approved drugs function against three types of melanoma mutations, which drive approximately 80 percent of melanomas.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news