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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Three investigators have joined the Marshall Institute for Interdisciplinary Research. Research at the institute is focused on a protein, Na/K-ATPase, that directs many cellular processes in the heart, kidney and other tissues. By studying how this cellular signaling occurs, MIIR researchers are working to develop new treatments for cancer, heart and kidney disease.

Biology professor Dr. Marcia Harrison is featured on the cover of the fall 2014 issue of “The Neuron”—the state’s journal of science and research. This issue also includes Marshall-related articles about MIIR’s partnership in a drug development venture, the West Virginia Makes Festival, a NASA research award to study long-term exposure to microgravity and the annual Water