Research Wire

Michael Nowak, research professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, was awarded grants totaling $75,000 from NASA for various projects. He also received funding from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Brian Kim, MD, at the School of Medicine, received a five-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research skin inflammation.

Two graduate students working with David Strait, professor of biological anthropology in Arts & Sciences, won doctoral dissertation research grants from the National Science Foundation.

Henric Krawczynski in Arts & Sciences received a $41,255 award from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for quasar research.

Jeremy Ryan, a graduate student working with Meredith Jackrel in the Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences, won a three-year $123,090 fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Brian N. Finck, professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $1.7 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

Michael L. Gross, professor in Arts & Sciences and at the School of Medicine, received a $31,500 subcontract from GenNext to support their NIH-funded project.

Michael J. Krawczynski in Arts & Sciences received a three-year $178,445 grant from the National Science Foundation for a collaborative petrology and geochemistry research project.

Steven G. Krantz, professor of mathematics and statistics in Arts & Sciences, received a $144,940 National Science Foundation grant for work on mathematical models for uncovering neurological disorders among the U.S. population infected with COVID-19.

Denise E. Wilfley, professor at the School of Medicine and in Arts & Sciences, received a five-year $2.6 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a training program in obesity and cardiovascular disease.