SHREVEPORT, La. — LSU Health Shreveport has been awarded a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a new Center for Post-Transcriptional Regulation.

This is the first and largest grant of its kind in the history of LSU Health Shreveport. The center will be led by Oren Rom, Ph.D., R.D., senior associate dean for basic and translational research, and Wayne Orr, Ph.D., vice chair for pathology and director of the Center for Cardiovascular Diseases and Sciences.

The new center will focus on how cells regulate metabolism -- the process by which the body converts nutrients into energy. Researchers will study the role of RNA molecules and protein modifications in controlling these processes using advanced technology like CRISPR gene editing, stem cell mod

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