LITTLE ROCK, Ark — Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have received $3.42 million in grant money from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study a stealthy virus linked to cancer.
Mark Manzano, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the College of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology, is studying how Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) evades the immune system and causes cancer.
“This virus is like a master of disguise,” he explained. “It doesn’t need to cause mutations like many cancer-causing agents. It brings its own cancer-causing genes and reprograms the cell.”…