Parameswaran (Param) Ramakrishnan, associate professor of pathology and biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, recently won a grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) for his research on autoimmunity function in type 1 diabetes. The Strategic Research Agreement grant, worth $600,000, will come into effect in June 2022.
Ramakrishnan’s award-winning research, “Novel mechanism and method to control T cell mediated autoimmunity in type 1 diabetes,” examined the potential of novel peptoids targeting a sugar modified protein function to suppress autoimmunity. Study results indicate that this new method may allow survival of insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells in diabetic patients.