UMMS-WPI Seed Funding

WPI and the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) launched the Collaborative Seed Funding Grant Program to nurture new joint research programs.  The Albrecht lab (WPI) and Alkema Lab (UMMS) received funding for a project entitled “Accelerated Drug Screening in a Whole-Organism Model for Calcium Channelopathies.”

This project will develop methods to directly observe brain activity in small worms that mimic genetic mutations in human patients with familial hemiplegic migraine. The aim is to screen drugs that restore normal brain function to identify potential pain treatments, and if successful, these methods can be used to target other neurological disorders.