An Indian-origin professor and his two colleagues at the University of Houston have got a $6,00,000 private grant for their path-breaking research to develop a new treatment for lupus. The Target Identification in lupus grant from the lupus Research Alliance has been given to Chandra Mohan, endowed professor in the university’s biomedical engineering department, and his research team members Hugh Roy and lillie Cranz.
lupus is a complex autoimmune disease that is difficult to diagnose, treat and defeat. Only one treatment has been approved in nearly 60 years.
“lupus nephritis (kidney disease) is one of the most serious complications of lupus. With the TIl grant support, Chandra Mohan, MD, PhD, University of Houston will build on his existing discoveries.