This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $1,700,000 was provided by the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for the project "ROLE OF THE SKD3 CHAPERONE IN MAINTAINING MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN QUALITY CONTROL". The purpose of this 4-year award, with a performance period from May 1, 2024 to April 30, 2028, is to conduct basic, applied, and advanced biomedical research to transform health care for military service members and the public through innovative research. The project aims to investigate medical solutions for the battlefield through research on the role of the SKD3 chaperone in maintaining mitochondrial protein quality control. As a leading research university, Caltech has extensive expertise in conducting scientific studies for federal agencies and has received over $50 million in grants from NASA, NIH, NSF and others over the past 5 years to support research in fields like astrophysics, neuroscience, and quantum information.
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