Wesleyan Granted Stem Cell Research Funds

Three professors will share the single largest grant awarded by the state for their research on epilepsy therapies

According to the New Haven Register, Wesleyan researchers were awarded $1.48 million, the single largest grant in a new pool of state funding for stem cell research. The labs of Janice Naegele, Laura Grabel and Gloster Aaron are working together to studying stem cell therapies to treat temporal lobe epilepsy.