LARAMIE, Wyo., Aug. 25 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release:

A University of Wyoming faculty member has received a two-year, $70,000 grant to further his research in psychiatric neuroscience.

To fund his work, Rammohan Shukla recently received a Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) for his project, titled "Translating Human Gene-Family Molecular Signatures of Suicidality into Behavior Models." His grant starts Jan. 15, 2027, and runs through Jan. 14, 2029.

"The goal of the project is to understand whether changes in ribosomal protein genes, which we identified in human brain tissue from individuals with depression and suicide, contribute to behavioral traits linked to sui...