Crain’s Cleveland Business: Two School of Medicine researchers recently received funding from the National Institutes of Health. Tony Wynshaw-Boris, the James H. Jewell MD ’34 Professor of Genetics and chair of the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, was awarded two grants, totaling more than $5 million to study the connection between abnormal embryonic brain development and autism. Kurt Lu, assistant professor of dermatology, won a $3.9 million grant to expand countermeasures against chemical threats.
