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10/20/03

SLU PROFESSOR AWARDED NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH GRANT

CANTON – St. Lawrence University Associate Professor of Biology Joseph S. 
Erlichman has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health 
to study the role of electrical coupling in the central chemosensory functions 
of the brain, especially respiratory control.
      The grant, for $114,290, includes funding for several undergraduate 
students to assist with the research, being conducted at St. Lawrence.
      Erlichman is investigating the relative contributions of both electrical 
and chemical transmission in brain synapses and how each affects the regulation 
of breathing, using live brain tissue. 
      A faculty member at St. Lawrence since 1999, Erlichman earned both his 
bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and 
the Ph.D. from Dartmouth Medical School. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at 
Dartmouth Medical School as well as a research associate there and at Wright 
State School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio. Erlichman's work has been published 
in a variety of academic journals, including The American Journal of 
Physiology and Applied Physiology.
      He is the co-principal investigator of a research project based at 
Dartmouth, which also has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, 
and also involves study of chemosensory brain functions. In addition, Erlichman 
has been awarded grant funding for his research from the National Science 
Foundation.

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