Kevin Campbell, PhD, professor and head of molecular physiology and biophysics at the UI Carver College of Medicine, has received a $517,814 grant from the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) to continue his research on muscle biology.

Campbell, who also is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, will study muscular dystrophies caused by defects in a cellular process that attaches sugar molecules to an important muscle protein.

Understanding this process, known as glycosylation, may help scientists develop treatments for a type of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy and several forms of congenital muscular dystrophy.

Since 1990, Campbell has received more than $2.7 million in research funding from the MDA.

Kevin Campbell, PhD

Campbell's Lab

Sen. Paul Wellstone Cooperative Research Center