Weill Cornell pharmacologist receives prestigious NIH M...( $2.5 million grant supports research ...)

Weill Cornell pharmacologist receives prestigious NIH MERIT Award

$2.5 million grant supports research into potential pharmaceutical targets for treating vascular complications of diabetes

NEW YORK (May 21, 2007) -- A leading authority and pioneer in the pharmacology of the signaling molecule nitric oxide (NO), Weill Cornell Medical College scientist Dr. Steven S. Gross has been selected by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to receive a 2007 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award, representing the fourth year the College has been selected for the prestigious honor.

This year's $2.5 million five-year research grant will provide long-term support for research aimed at furthering understanding of the NO-related trigger for vascular complications of diabetes and developing novel pharmaceutical approaches for ameliorating the condition.

Dr. Gross is professor of pharmacology, director of the mass spectrometry core facility and principal investigator on an NIH grant that supports the training of Ph.D. candidates in the Graduate School Program in Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical College.

"We are extremely grateful for the NIH's continued support for our translational research efforts," says Dr. Antonio M. Gotto Jr., the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College. "Dr. Gross is highly deserving of this honor. His research has uncovered a wealth of information about the important role of nitric oxide in the body. This work, which has laid the groundwork for treatments of numerous disease conditions that have been attributed to nitric oxide excess or insufficiency, is currently focused on new approaches for one of the most painful complications of diabetes."

Beginning in the late 1980s, Dr. Gross and colleagues made several key discoveries about nitric oxide. Working with Dr. Roberto Levi and colleagues at Weill Cornell, Dr. Gross was a member of the first group to administer a selective inh
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Contact: Andrew Klein
ank2017@med.cornell.edu
212-821-0560
New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College
21-May-2007

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