UGANDANS EXCELLING ABROAD: Peter Lwigale wins $1.5 million US Federal Grant for groundbreaking eye research
Dr Peter Lwigale, a Ugandan Rice University researcher has won a United States Federal Grant worth $1.5 million to study how a recently identified protein in the cornea aids development, homeostasis and wound healing in the eye.
Lwigale an associate professor of biochemistry and cell biology, won the four-year National Institutes of Health R01 grant to study nephronectin (Npnt), a protein recen