School of Kinesiology assistant professor Sarah Greising, PhD, and her Skeletal Muscle Plasticity and Regeneration Laboratory (SMPRL) were recently awarded a Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship ($42,721) from the U of M’s Office of the Vice President for Research with the School providing a $25,000 match.

The project, “New Directions to Understand the Paradoxical Role of Inflammation following Skeletal Muscle Injury,” will run July 1, 2021 through January 15, 2023 and provides novel capabilities in seeking to take the SMPRL’s research in a new direction. Led by two of the lab’s postdoctoral fellows, Dr. Christiana Raymond-Pope and Dr. Jake Sorensen, the primary goal of the work is to understand the appearance of a transitional extracellular matrix in connection with the inflammatory response to injury. The proposal supports the equipment purchase of a Bio-Plex 200, a flexible and reliable multiplex assay system permitting analysis of up to 100 biomolecules (i.e., protein and nucleic acid ) in a single sample.