Dr. Thomas Kim, an associate professor of chemistry at Youngstown State University, holds a

Dr. Thomas Kim, an associate professor of chemistry at Youngstown State University, holds a container of mouse cancer cells used in research. The National Science Foundation has awarded a $700,000 grant to Kim and to Drs. Chester R. Cooper Jr. and Gary Walker, associate professors of biology, to research proteins in a deadly fungus and the way they are related to the way in which the fungus causes disease.