The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) grant titled "TOOLS4CELLS: TOOLS FOR LOCUS-SPECIFIC AND INTERACTION-SPECIFIC PROTEIN DEPLETION" under its Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant, awarded to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc., will develop a novel experimental technique to selectively remove a specific protein from a cell, but only when that protein is attached to a unique location on a chromosome. This "high risk/high reward" research aims to combine genomic technologies in a new way to enable selective depletion of chromatin-bound protein complexes, first in Drosophila and then extending the method to human cells. The project will provide training for up to four graduate students in the state of Kansas and is expected to be completed by February 2027.
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