North Dakota State University School of Pharmacy Associate professor Dr. Yagna Jarajapu receives two-year grant of $154,000 from the American Heart Association.
LOS ANGELES (Diya TV) — Indian American associate professor of North Dakota State University School of Pharmacy Dr. Yagna Jarajapu received a two-year grant of $154,000 from the American Heart Association.
The grant will further his research relating to blood vessel damage in Diabetes patients.
“Due to long-term diabetes in older adults, the blood vessels are damaged so they cannot repair the injury, if you go for a surgery and a person has diabetes, they want to check whether you can heal well following the surgery. Diabetes is known to impair the healing capacity because blood vessels don’t regenerate immediately following surgery,” Jarajapu said.
“It has been a problem for a long time and still we don’t have any reliable treatments. We are trying to find new, novel approaches to enhance vascular regeneration by enhancing the function of stem cells that we already have in the body,” Jarajapu said.
His research group’s work was recognized among the top 10 percent of research by the American Heart Association in 2017.
He received his doctorate from Glasgow Caledonian University and his Master of science degree from the University of Strathclyde. Jarajapu’s pharmacy degrees came from Andhra University in India. He joined the NDSU pharmaceutical sciences in 2011.
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