WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - A Midwestern State University professor is receiving more than half a million dollars in federal funding to advance research into Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Dr. Fu-Cheng "George" Liang, a biochemistry educator with MSU Texas' McCoy College of Science, Mathematics and Engineering, received a $534,620 grant from the National Institutes of Health.

The funding will support Liang and a team of student researchers as they study how certain proteins could help prevent or break up the buildup of other proteins in the brain.