UAlbany chemist receives federal support to advance tool for complete RNA sequencing

University at Albany’s Shenglong Zhang, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and the RNA Institute, has received two Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants from the National Institutes of Health totaling over $620,000. The grants were jointly awarded to the University and UAlbany spinoff company DirectSeq Biosciences, Inc., which Zhang has directed as founder and president since November …