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According to Dr. Scott Morrical (far left), another Catamount team is preparing to make the country take notice—in this case, in the big dance of DNA repair. Morrical is one of five VCC laboratory investigators who recently received an NCI Program Project Grant to study how DNA repairs damage caused by ionizing radiation. Pictured beside him, from left to right: Drs. Jeff Bond, Susan Wallace, principal investigator, Mark Rould, and Sylvie Doublié.

Wallace Leads $7.5 Million Program Project Grant to Study DNA Repair

Ateam of researchers in VCC's Genome Stability & Expression Program was recently awarded $7.5 million in the form of a Program Project grant. The grant, awarded to the researchers by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) over a five-year span, will fund a study using biochemical, computational, and structural biology methodologies to determine how three families of DNA enzymes repair damage caused by ionizing radiation.

The award—one of just several Program Projects currently funded at UVM—was made to Susan Wallace, PhD, program leader of the VCC Genome Stability & Expression Research Program, and four other VCC members within the Program; Jeff Bond, PhD, research associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics; Sylvie Doublié, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics; Scott Morrical, PhD, professor of biochemistry; and Mark Rould, PhD, research assistant professor of molecular physiology and biophysics. read more