Left: Healthy heart muscle cells •  Right: In green, heart muscle cells damaged by SARS-CoV-2

October 5, 2021

Researchers from the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA– including molecular, cell, and developmental biology professors Arjun Deb and Matteo Pellegrini, and microbiology immunology and molecular genetics professor, Jake Lusis– have received a $6.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how the SARS-CoV-2 virus causes damage throughout the body.  You can read the full article, here.