Watts led an interdisciplinary team of researchers and professionals at MSU to pull together a successful NIH application in 2021—a feat that required over four years of intensive work. In December 2021, the team received the exciting notification of a five-year, $13.5 million program project grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to study Perivascular Adipose Tissue (PVAT) as a Central Integrator of Vascular Health.

This grant will greatly expand the capacity of Watts’ team to build on work already underway.

Read the full story from the College of Osteopathic Medicine.