Research Wire

Austin Moyle, a chemistry graduate student working with Michael Gross in Arts & Sciences, won a Next Generation Investigator Award from the California Separation Science Society.

Using a mouse model, researchers in the lab of Jessica Wagenseil have modeled the behavior of the aorta to understand how it develops and how it responds to mechanical stressors.

Ruben G. Nava, MD, and Brian W. Wong, both assistant professors of surgery at the School of Medicine, have been awarded career development grants through the American Society of Transplantation. 

Alian Wang, research professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, received a three-year $570,828 award from NASA for planetary research.

Sachiko Amari, research professor in the Department of Physics in Arts & Sciences, received a $973,810 award from NASA.

Douglas Chalker, professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, received a five-year $660,281 collaborative award from the National Institutes of Health to expand hands-on science efforts in K-12 classrooms.

The Whitehall Foundation has awarded a three-year $225,000 grant to Tristan Qingyun Li, assistant professor at the School of Medicine, to investigate the function of microglia, immune cells that reside in the brain and perform myriad critical functions.

Four faculty members in the Department of Neuroscience at the School of Medicine — Yao Chen, Thomas Papouin, Jason Yi and Guoyan Zhao — have been awarded their first R01 grants through the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Geoffrey Goodhill, professor of developmental biology and neuroscience at the School of Medicine, has received a two-year $675,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to enhance the capabilities of light field microscopy for brain imaging.

A team of engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering found that conduction of heat plays a larger role than previously thought in the dynamics of droplets on smooth surfaces that repel water.