Dr. Srivatsan receives prestigious NIH grant

Date Released: 2006-07-25

  Dr. Malathi Srivatsan, Molecular Biology, has received a grant totaling nearly $200,000 from the prestigious National Institute of Health to study the effects of nicotine on developing nervous systems. Dr. Srivatsan will test the hypothesis that chronic exposure to nicotine retards development of nervous system among new born rat pups due to altered influx of calcium through the calcium permeable nicotinic receptors. Results from these experiments will begin to reveal the mechanism of nicotine’s action on survival and growth of nerve cells.