WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina | Clemson prof awarded stem cell research grant from Michael J. Fox Foundation
(Clemson-AP) Feb. 25, 2005 - A Clemson University professor has received a grant from the Michael J. Fox Foundation to look for a cure for Parkinson's disease through stem cell research.
Clemson professor Xuejun Wen is one of four to receive part of the nearly $1 million grant. Wen's lab hopes its research can reduce a number of diseases including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and diabetes.
Wen is a bioengineering, cell biology and anatomy professor at Clemson. He works at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston in the schools' joint bioengineering program.
Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1991.
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