BLACKSBURG, Va., Aug. 11 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Blanka Bordas, a doctoral candidate in Virginia Tech's Translational Biology, Medicine and Health Graduate Program, has received a National Institutes of Health fellowship to study a molecule involved in DNA repair and gene expression.
The Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellows is awarded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to support dissertation research related to its mission.
The enzyme Bordas studies is called protein arginine methyltransferase 5, or PRMT5. It is essential to normal cell function. Past research has shown that embryos without PRMT5 do not survive.
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