4.30.18
Mica Jones, a graduate student in archaeology working with Fiona Marshall, James W. and Jean L. Davis Professor in Arts & Sciences, was awarded a $20,000 Wenner Gren dissertation fieldwork grant in support of research on “Holocene hunter-gatherer variability and ecological reorganization at Namundiri A, Uganda.” Jones also received an $8,000 National Science Foundation grant toward his doctoral dissertation on “Hunter-gatherer socioeconomic strategies and climatic variability in eastern Africa, ~20,000-5,000 BP.”
4.30.18
Farah Musharbash, a third-year medical student at the School of Medicine, received accolades for his cardiovascular research on the Cox-maze IV procedure, a lifesaving ablation technique developed by Ralph James Damiano Jr., MD, the Evarts A. Graham Professor of Surgery and director of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Musharbash recently won the best-poster award at a meeting of the American Association of Thoracic Surgery, and two studies he co-authored on the procedure have been published in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
4.27.18
Andrea Soranno, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the School of Medicine, received a two-year, $250,000 extramural grant from the Ruth K. Broad Biomedical Research Foundation Inc. for his work titled “Structural plasticity of ApoE and its role in AD.”
4.25.18
Dana Abendschein, associate professor of medicine and of cell biology and physiology, and Jie Zheng, associate professor of radiology, both at the School of Medicine, have been awarded a three-year, $969,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and APT Therapeutics Inc. for research titled “Antithrombotic Therapy with No Bleeding Risk for PCI.”
4.25.18
Jim Janetka, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the School of Medicine, and co-founder of ProteXase Therapeutics Inc., along with Lidija Klampfer, co-founder and chief scientific officer of ProteXase, received a one-year, nearly $300,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Targeting Hepatocyte Growth Factor with Protease Inhibitors in Lung Cancer.”
4.25.18
Ryan Ogliore, assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, received a $147,000 grant from NASA in support of a project titled “Investigating nearby supernovae through analyses of ancient and contemporary stardust.”
4.19.18
A team led by Damena Agonafer, of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, is developing a technique to cool 3-D stacked computer chips with the help of a one-year, $100,000 grant from Cisco Systems Inc. The team aims to develop new thermal materials and structures, including a micro-heat exchanger, that would help to manage the heat load without compromising performance or further increasing power consumption. Learn more on the engineering site.
4.16.18
Saira Khan, postdoctoral associate in the Division of Public Health Sciences at the School of Medicine, has received a two-year, $170,000 Department of DefenseProstate Cancer Research Program Early Investigator Research Award. Bettina Drake, associate professor of surgery, is mentor of her project, “Chemotherapeutic Potential of Metformin and Statins to Prevent Progression to Lethal Prostate Cancer.” Learn more on the Public Health Sciences site.
4.11.18
Michael Greenberg, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the School of Medicine, received a five-year, nearly $2.7 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his work titled “Regulation of cardiac power output in health and disease.” Greenberg also received a two-year, $150,000 Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award from the March of Dimes for his research titled “Understanding Congenital Heart Disease from the Ground Up.”
4.11.18
Julie M. Bugg, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences, received a $419,000 grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes on Health (NIH) toward research on “Memory-based attentional control: A behavioral biomarker for preclinical and early state Alzheimer’s disease?”
4.10.18
Min Lian, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, received a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Multilevel Interplays in the Development of Tobacco Dependence.”
4.10.18
Chyi-Song Hsieh, MD, PhD, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Rheumatology and professor of medicine, received a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Evaluation of Antigen-Specific Immune Interactions with Commensal Bacteria in Neonates”; and a five-year, $2.2 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research titled “Unique Roles of Antigen Presenting Cells on T Cell Tolerance and Autoimmunity.”
4.9.18
Christine Floss, research professor in physics in Arts & Sciences, was awarded $255,000 from NASA to undertake a project titled “Identification and analysis of impact craters on Al foils from the Stardust interstellar collector tray.”
4.3.18
Andreas Burkhalter, professor of neuroscience at the School of Medicine, and associate professor of biomedical engineering and of neurobiology, received a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Role of Modular Inhibitory Network in Mouse Visual Cortex.”
4.3.18
Mary C. Dinauer, MD, PhD, the Fred M. Saigh Distinguished Chair in Pediatric Research at the School of Medicine, scientific director of Children’s Discovery Institute, professor of pediatrics and of pathology and immunology, all at the School of Medicine, received a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Selective Deletion of Neutrophil Nadph Oxidase and Innate Responses to Aspergillus Fumigatus.”
4.3.18
Amit Pathak, of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and Eynav Yafit Klechevsky, of the School of Medicine, have received a three-year, $610,000 Trailblazer Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). They are collaborating to find a better way to prepare and treat patients’ immune cells to maximize their effectiveness in fighting cancer. Learn more on the engineering site.
4.3.18
Ying Chen, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, received a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Podocyte Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Nephrotic Syndrome.”