Indian American professor gets USD 1.6m grant to protect kidneys from obesity

An Indian-American professor of Pharmacology, Tahir Hussain, at the University of Houston, has received a grant of 1(point)6 million dollars from the National Institutes of Health to examine a kidney cell that could prevent damage from inflammation caused by obesity. 

The targeted cells express a protein



called the angiotensin type 2 receptor, which recently has been indicated to have anti-inflammatory and renoprotective actions. Dr Hussain, an alumnus of the Aligarh Muslim University, will study the impact of inflammation in kidneys with active AT2R as well as those with no AT2R.