Marshall SOM receives nearly $2.4 million grant to study nutrition and disease

(Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine ) Uma Sundaram, M.D., vice dean for research and graduate education at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, has received a five-year $2.39 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study gastrointestinal absorption of amino acids, specifically glutamine, and its effects on inflammatory bowel disease, which is particularly prevalent in West Virginia and the Appalachian region.