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Northwestern University) Northwestern University has received a $12.6 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health to study the role of protein quality control in human aging and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. The nearly five-year grant is one of NIH's Program Project Grants, designed to bring together the very best investigators to uniquely solve a big problem, with aging and the risk for age-associated diseases being an example of highest priority.
