Brown professor to lead $6-million NIH grant to study rare brain disease

		IMAGE: A computer-enhanced image shows the general structure of viruses in the family polyomavirinae. A member of that family -- the JC virus, occurring in 70 percent of humans -- can... Click here for more information.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Brown University, in collaboration with two other institutions, has been awarded a five-year, $6-million National Institutes of Health program project grant to help determine how a virus that can cause a rare brain disease attaches to host cells.