The findings from Professor Erica Ollmann Saphire’s lab pave the way for much-needed therapies for the the Nipah virus, “the scariest virus you’ve never heard of.”
Once thought to inhibit the growth of tumors, the protein angiomotin instead is required to produce new tumor growth.
The project is a step toward identifying new drug candidates for diseases including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, heart disease, stroke and diabetes.