First read this.

http://www.osu.edu/osu/newsrel/Archive/00-10-24_Sundstrom_Award.html



>>COLUMBUS -- A microbiologist at The Ohio State University has received a five-year, $425,000 award to further her research on a yeast that causes several potentially serious infections in humans.

Paula Sundstrom, an associate professor of molecular virology, will receive the award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. It will help support her work to identify more efficient methods for treating infections caused by Candida albicans.

Part of her research will focus on identifying the genes that cause Candida to grow in the host.

"By identifying these genes, we will be able to invent new strategies to inhibit Candida's ability to grow," she said.>>

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>>>>>>Sundstrom's current research goals are twofold: she's studying the regulation of a protein - called Hwp1 - found in Candida as well as that protein's ability to adhere to surfaces inside the body.<<<<<