Money awarded to fund lupus research for OMRF scientist

The National Institutes of Health has awarded an Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist a $4.1 million grant to study how tiny genetic changes contribute to lupus.

Swapan Nath, Ph.D., hopes to determine which genetic regions impact a type of immune cell called macrophages, which help protect us from infection. Impairment of normal macrophage function can lead to the immune system mistakenly…