and

Dr. John Olson
of Rice University

Funds to study Bacterial heme transport and hemoglobin expressions.

The grant will enagle upgrades of microbiology and laboratory equipment and will provide funds for graduate students participating in the research activities. For several years Henderson has conducted research into using information from bacterial heme to develop a blood substitute and has collaborated with Dr. John Olson of Rice University.

"I have always had undergraduate students in my lab and wrtoe the grant to include them," Henderson said. "We have been working on this project for a couple of years on the transport systems and how heme is transported to hemoglobin."