Dr. Zhang |
The director of Research at
Palmer’s Florida Campus, Liang
Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., was able to
transfer his $165,000 training
grant award from the National
Institutes of Health to Palmer. He
initially received the grant during
his tenure as an assistant professor
of pharmacology at the College of
Medicine of the University of
Illinois before he came to Palmer.
This means that he has been able
to continue his research work in
aging-associated bone diseases at
Palmer’s Florida Campus.
In addition, progress continues on
the new Laboratory of Cell &
Molecular Biology (LCMB) at the
Florida Campus. It is scheduled to
open in April 2009. Projects conducted
at this new, state-of-the-art
laboratory are planned to show
how chiropractic may work on
some aging-related diseases and
provide the scientific mechanisms
behind it.
Before the opening of the LCMB,
Dr. Zhang has been collaborating
with researchers at the University
of South China. The efforts have
produced fruitful results with one
paper on cardiovascular protective
mechanisms of nutritional supplements
published in Biochemistry
and Biophysics Research Communications
and another paper on
diabetes research being considered
to be published in the prestigious
Journal of Biological Chemistry.