A Tulane professor has been awarded a $1.65 million grant for research that could shed light on the molecular details of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Researchers at Tulane National Primate Research Center received a new grant totaling more than $4 million over the next five years to continue their work on a vaccine against tuberculosis. The grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will fund research led by Deepak Kaushal, director of the Tulane Center for Tuberculosis Research.

Newcomb-Tulane Honors Summer Research Grants are awarded to honors students from all fields of study. The recipients work closely with faculty mentors, who help guide their projects.

Catherine Burnette, an assistant professor at the Tulane School of Social Work, has dedicated her career to studying the health disparities of indigenous peoples, examining everything from domestic violence to substance abuse.

Asim Abdel-Mageed, DVM, PhD, Zimmerman Professor of Cancer Research at Tulane University School of Medicine, and his colleagues published research in Scientific Reports, examining whether drugs already approved to treat other diseases or conditions could be effective in blocking the spread of cancer cells.

Dr. Charity Dean, Dr. Brett Wilson and Dr. Jenni Nix relied on Tulane training to help Santa Barbara County manage a wildfire, mudslide and the aftermath.

Fast turnaround for next-generation sequencing is a feature of the new equipment at the Center for Translational Research in Infection and Inflammation.