NIH awards grant for cicatricial alopecia study

Cleveland ? The National Institutes of Health has awarded Pratima Karnik, Ph.D., assistant professor of dermatology at Cleveland?s Case Western Reserve University, a grant of $1.77 million to fund a five-year study titled ?PPAR-gamma Signaling in Normal Pilosebaceous Units and in Scarring Alopecia,? reports the Cicatricial Alopecia Research Foundation (CARF).

source : dermatologytimes.modernmedicine.com

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