Texas Tech research team earns $3 million renewal to advance stroke therapy

Texas Tech research team earns $3 million renewal to advance stroke therapy

Stroke research aims to understand the brain's self-protective and repair mechanisms. Gaining detailed insight into these mechanisms is crucial as such knowledge could lead to newly developed medications and interventions which mimic or engage the brain's self-protective/repair mechanisms, leading to innovative stroke therapies.

Stroke Therapy Research at Texas Tech Gets $3 Million Funding Boost - TV360 Nigeria

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) researchers, in the United States, have received a $3 million grant renewal from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) to continue their groundbreaking work on stroke therapies through 2030. The funding builds on a $2.9 million grant first awarded in 2018 to investigate how the brain protects and repairs itself after ischemic stroke. The team’s research focuses o…