Faster Drug Discovery

by on November 15, 2012

A Google search for drug discovery
Grants totaling $860,000 fund cutting-edge genetic sequencing

By ALICIA ROBERTS

Jason Gagliano, a biology graduate student, works in a Wake Forest lab.
It’s what scholars dream about: getting to work with the latest technology and leading researchers in the industry to develop a scientific breakthrough.

For Jason Gagliano, a biology graduate student, it’s a reality.

Gagliano is part of the physics department team developing a technology called Next-Gen Lab-on-Bead. The tool uses next-generation genetic sequencing to make the drug development process thousands of times faster, much like a Google search.

Click here to read this article at the WFU News Service

Jason Gagliano, a biology graduate student, works in a Wake Forest lab.

Jason Gagliano, a biology graduate student, works in a Wake Forest lab.

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