Wayne State receives NIH award to study genetic factors that impact benefit of exercise

(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) A team of researchers led by Robert Wessells, Ph.D., assistant professor of physiology in the School of Medicine at Wayne State University, has received a two-year, $423,500 grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health for the project, 'Octopamine mediates benefits of endurance exercise in Drosophila.'