{"id":12294,"date":"2022-12-01T15:02:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T20:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/?p=12294"},"modified":"2024-04-15T08:08:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T12:08:55","slug":"dr-bev-koller-awarded-new-r21-grant-from-niaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/dr-bev-koller-awarded-new-r21-grant-from-niaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Bev Koller Awarded New R21 Grant from NIAID"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13850\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 198px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13850 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2016\/10\/Bev-Koller.jpg\" alt=\"Bev Koller\" width=\"188\" height=\"250\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Beverly Koller PhD Associate Professor of Genetics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"lead\">Bev Koller, PhD (Associate Professor, Genetics) has been awarded a new R21 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) for her project titled \u201cModeling the contribution of coronavirus cellular tropism to viral pathogenesis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Although the coronaviruses NL63, SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 differ in their disease pathogenesis, each uses ACE2 as the receptor by which it gains entry to the cell. A growing understanding of species differences in ACE2 structure and, perhaps more importantly, in tissue-specific patterns of expression has underscored the potential limitations in the use of mouse models for the study of disease pathogenesis of coronaviruses that rely on ACE2 for cellular entry.\u00a0 Dr. Koller proposes to implement a strategy for the rapid generation of mouse models in which human ACE2 expression is limited to individual or multiple airway epithelial populations. 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