EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KineMed, Inc. (www.kinemed.com) announced today that it has been awarded a three-year grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to apply its novel, proprietary non-invasive measurement of skeletal muscle mass to pre-term and full-term infants and young children. The Principal Investigator, William Evans, Ph.D., is head of the KineMed Division of Muscle and Health. The study will, for the first time, measure changes in skeletal muscle mass during one year of growth. The information from this project will provide new information to better assess the effects of nutritional status and other factors that result in the loss of muscle.
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