Dr Brian Cobb, assistant professor of pathology a the Case Western University School of Medicine has been awarded at 2008 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator Award. The award prgramme run by the NIH in the USA helps researchers follow ground-breaking approaches that could transform biomedical science. Dr Cobb is one of only 31 grant awardees this year and will receive $2.35 million dollars over five years for his research programme.
'This award will have a transforming effect on my research' commented Dr Cobb. 'I will be able to expand my research team and buy important items of equipment to speed up the research process.'
Dr Cobb is currently working on developing new treatments for abscesses in CGD and in 2007 received $115,000, over two years, from CGD RT for this work. 'I am so grateful to the CGD RT for the funding that kick started my research programme at Case Western. Your organisation believed in me from the beginning and helped me on the way to this important award', says Dr Cobb.
The prizes are used to help develop the research careers of higly talented people and are given to 'highly creative researchers tackling important scientific challenges with bold ideas and inventive technologies that promise to break through barriers and radcially shift our understanding', as quoted on the NIH website.
'I will use this award to add to the knowledge of a newly emerging branch of medicine called glycomics. This field of study focuses on the role of complex sugar structures expressed in cells, tissues and whole organisms and how these molecules are involved in disease processes', said Dr Cobb. 'This work has real potential to find new ways to treat abscesses and infections such as those that occur in CGD. It may help us develop new tools to fight cancer, develop vaccines and may provide the 'next generation' of anti-biotics'.
October 2008
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