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With a new five-year, $2.5-million grant from the Foundation for Physical Therapy, Brown University will lead a multi-institution center to train physical therapy health services researchers and to seed new studies.

Dr. Simin Liu is among the first scientists funded by the American Heart Association to work on its new Cardiovascular Genome-Phenome initiative. He will now have access to three major resources for a deep investigation of gene-diet interactions in cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes across different ethnic groups.