Tri-Cities Tech Business Update
*Research grant will help scientists fight liver disease
Blood proteins can help identify liver disease early.
Battelle, using researchers working from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., and the University of Washington Liver Transplantation Program in Seattle will receive $4.8 million from the Washington State Life Sciences Discovery Fund over the next three years to develop a new proteomics technology and apply it in search of biomarkers for liver disease. No simple blood test exists to determine which of the millions of people infected with hepatitis C virus will develop cirrhosis of the liver or cancer. This work will develop new technology to find blood proteins that herald the earliest signs of chronic liver disease. Contact Mary Beckman at (509) 375-3688.
