CASK gene research (IMAGE)

Virginia Tech

CASK gene research

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Sarika Srivastava, a research assistant professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, will use a more than $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the underlying mechanisms of epileptic encephalopathy caused by a loss of CASK gene function.

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Clayton Metz/Virginia Tech

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