Research Wire

Daniel Kerschensteiner, MD, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2 million grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study visual pathways.

Jeffrey Catalano, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, won a $295,464 major research instrumentation grant from the National Science Foundation to acquire a laboratory-based X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy instrument.

Samuel Achilefu, the Michel M Ter-Pogossian Professor of Radiology at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $2.2 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research imaging techniques during surgery.

Henric Krawczynski and Johanna Nagy, in the Department of Physics in Arts & Sciences, received a two-year $459,050 award from NASA to test an array of quantum sensors on a one-day balloon flight to launch from New Mexico in 2023.

Bronwen Konecky, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, won a $239,375 award from the National Science Foundation.

Katharina Lodders, research professor, and Bruce Fegley, professor, both in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, won a $505,505 grant from the National Science Foundation for stellar chemistry research.

Cyrus A. Raji, assistant professor of radiology and of neurology at the School of Medicine, received a one-year $2.3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Linda J. Pike, the Alumni Endowed Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

David Alan Hunstad, MD, professor of pediatrics and of molecular microbiology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for UTI research.

Mohamed A. Zayed, MD, PhD, associate professor of surgery and of radiology, received a four-year $2.1 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).