Karen Houseknecht to attend The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases Principle Investigator Workshop

Karen Houseknecht, Ph.D., professor of Pharmacology in UNE’s College of Pharmacy, is attending The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Principle Investigator Workshop in Bethesda, Maryland on December 2-3, 2014. 

This workshop targets new principle investigators of R01 research grants, and includes discussions on grant strategy and funding opportunities with program officers of NIDDK.  

Houseknecht is the principle investigator of a four-year RO1 grant focusing on molecular mechanisms that cause adverse endocrine and metabolic side effects with atypical antipsychotic medications.