Weiwen Long and his research team seek to unlock mysterious cancer-connected gene

Weiwen Long, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, recently received a $1.7 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute. Long and his team will conduct research to unlock the mysteries of a gene that plays an important role in the formation and spread of lung cancer and other cancers.

“This is no small feat at a time when funding is so hard to come by,” said Madhavi P. Kadakia, chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Long, who teaches courses in cell signaling and cancer biology, joined the faculty at Wright State in 2013. Kadakia