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Bo Chen

Project Title	Collaborator(s)
Adult neurogenesis for improving urinary function after contusion spinal cord injury.	Dr. Chun-Li Zhang. Department of Molecular biology, UTSW.	Extramural
Central neuropathic pain after Spinal cord injury.	Dr. Kevin Liu. Somatosensation and Pain Unit, NIH.	Extramural
Refillable Hydrogel Interfaces for Programmable Spinal Therapeutics After SCI.	Dr. Siyuan Rao. Department of Biomedical Engineering. Binghamton University.	Extramural
CBD-IN therapy for central neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury.	Dr. Jingyu Feng. Department of Neuroscience. University of Rochester Medicine.	Extramural
New Approaches for NKCC1 Inhibition to Enhance Locomotor Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury	Dr. Kyle Koss. Translational Neuroscience. UTMB.	Intramural
A Novel Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury-Induced Central Neuropathic Pain.	Dr. Jia Zhou. Pharmacology and Toxicology.	Intramural
A parabrachial circuit mechanism linking chronic pain to AD-relevant tau pathology.	Dr. Jun-Ho La. Translational Neuroscience. UTMB.	Intramural

Rinat Esenaliev

Project Title	Collaborator(s)
Nano-Pulsed Optoacoustic Neuromodulation for Reducing Traumatic Brain Injury-Driven Neuropathology and Improving Cognitive Outcome	Maria-Adelaide Micci, Department of Anesthesiology, UTMB	Active R01 grant, Internal
Nano-Pulsed Laser Therapy as Non-Invasive Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease	Maria-Adelaide Micci, Department of Anesthesiology, UTMB	Internal
Building a Nano-Pulsed Laser Therapy System Prototype for Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury Patients	Maria-Adelaide Micci, Department of Anesthesiology, UTMB	Active MBHI grant
Pilot Study of Insertable, Subcutaneous Catheter. Phase 1.	Industry Partner	Active contract, External
Ultrasound Stimulation of Pancreas. Phase 1.	Industry Partner	Active contract, External
Optoacoustic Detection of Stroke	David Mayerich, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston	External
Intracranial Hematoma Detection Using Optoacoustic Imaging	David Mayerich,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston	Internal
Optoacoustic Detection of Stroke	Hashem Shaltoni and Xiang Fang, Department of Neurology, Alejandro Villasante-Tezanos, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, UTMB	Internal
Intracranial Hematoma Detection Using Optoacoustic Imaging	Patrick Karas, Department of Neurosurgery, UTMB	Internal

Younghwan Jung

Project Title	Collaborator(s)
Targeted Degradation of Class I HDACs to Reprogram Pain Signaling in Neuropathic Pain	Mark White, BMB, UTMB Haiqing Zhao, BMB, UTMB Jun-Ho La, Translational Neuroscience, UTMB Xiao-Ming Wang, OB/Gyn, UTMB	Intramural
Discovery Platform for Allosteric HDAC1/2/3 PROTACs as Disease-Modifying Neuropathic Pain Therapy	Jun-Ho La, Translational Neuroscience, UTMB Brendan Prideaux, Translational Neuroscience, UTMB Xiao-Ming Wang, OB/Gyn, UTMB Xuping Xie, Microbiology and Immunology, UTMB Haiqing Zhao, BMB, UTMB	Intramural
Targeted Degradation of HDAC6 to Restore Proteostasis, Axonal Transport, and Neuroimmune Resilience in Alzheimer’s Disease	Claudia Marino, Neurology, UTMB	Intramural

Jun-Ho La

Project Title	Collaborator(s)
Development of a multi-modal mouse model of cluster headache	Mark Burish, Seung-Hee Yoo, UT Health Sci Ctr Houston	Extramural
Developing d9-methadone as a differentiated opioid analgesic with reduced liabilities	Tatiana Nanovskaya UTMB (Dept. of OB/GYN)	Intramural
A parabrachial circuit mechanism linking chronic pain to AD-relevant tau pathology	Bo Chen (UTMB (DTN), Rakez Kayed, UTMB (Neurology)	Intramural
Targeted Degradation of Class I HDACs to Reprogram Pain Signaling in Neuropathic Pain	Younghwan Jung, UTMB (DTN)	Intramural

Volker Neugebauer

Project Title	Collaborator(s)
mGlu5-eCB crosstalk in the amygdala in pain	David Finn, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences , Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Institute for Health Discovery and Innovation, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.	External
Descending pain modulation	Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer, Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Universität Zuerich, Zuerich, Switzerland	External
Photopharmacological analysis of mGlu5 function in brain circuits	Ferdinando Nicoletti, Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Serena Notartomaso, Department of Molecular Neuropharmacology, IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzili, Italy Cyril Goudet, Institute of Functional Genomics IGF, National Centre for Scientific Research CNRS, INSERM, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France Amadeu Llebaria, MCS - Medicinal Chemistry & Synthesis, Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Sabatino Maione, Section of Pharmacology L. Donatelli, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy	External
Cell type and circuit-specific mechanism of amygdala neuroplasticity	Yarimar Carrasquillo, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD	External
Myelin dysregulation in the amygdala and corticolimbic pathways	Igor Ponomarev, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, SOM Jonah Chan, Department of Neurology and part of the Weill Institute for Neurosciences at the University of California, San Francisco, CA	External
Amygdala pain mechanisms – role of neuroimmune signaling	Igor Ponomarev, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, SOM Theodore Price, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, TX	External
Trans-synaptic signaling complex in pain mechanisms	Shashank Dravid, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, TX (previously: Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, NE)	External
Kappa opioid receptor functions in limbic brain regions in pain	Edita Navratilova, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Frank Porreca, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Sarah E. Ross, Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, PA	External
Brain circuits for migraine pain – role of central CGRP	Edita Navratilova, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Frank Porreca, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ	External
A prolactin-mediated neuroendocrine link between stress-induced latent sensitization and female-selective pain	Edita Navratilova, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Frank Porreca, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ	External
Hypothalamic KOR Neurons: A key node in opioid use disorder-related sleep dysfunction and negative affect	Edita Navratilova, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Frank Porreca, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ	External
Amygdala P2Y14 receptor function in pain	Daniela Salvemini, Pharmacology and Physiology, Saint Louis University, MO	External
Natural products for chronic pain – microbiota/gut-brain actions	Chawan-Li (Leslie) Shen, Pathology, TTUHSC Tor Wager, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH	External
Effects of pecans on brain health in older Americans with mild cognitive impairment: gut-brain axis	Chawan-Li (Leslie) Shen, Pathology, TTUHSC Jonathan Singer, Psychological Sciences, TTU	External
Curcumin and Retinal Amyloid-beta Pilot Study	Chawan-Li (Leslie) Shen, Pathology, TTUHSC	External
Leveraging technology to meet the needs of rural family caregivers in Texas	Jonathan Singer, Psychological Sciences, TTU	External
Reducing suicide risk among aging caregivers of persons with AD/ADRD: Adapting, implementing, and evaluating Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills training interventions	Jonathan Singer, Psychological Sciences, TTU	External
Risk factors of cognitive decline in a rural aging cohort	Samudani Dhanasekara, Pharmacology and Neuroscience and Garrison Institute on Aging, TTUHSC	External
Development of first-in-class dual atypical DAT/sEH inhibitors for painful chemotherapy-induced neuropathy	Nadia German, Pharmaceutical Sciences, TTUHSC	External

Andres Oberhauser

Project Title	Collaborator(s)
The function of post-translational modifications of myosin and its chaperone UNC-45 that occur with adult aging.	Guy Benian (Co-PI, Dept. of Pathology, Emory University) William Russell (Co-Investigator, BMB, UTMB), Eliseo Eugenin (DTN, UTMB), Kyle Koss (DTN, UTMB) Mark White (SCSB, UTMB) Agenor Limon (Neurology, UTMB)	Intramural

Gracie Vargas

Project Title	Collaborator(s)
Intravital study of glial-vascular dynamics and coagulopathy in cerebral malaria Subtopics: intravital study of microglial-vascular interactions, vascular aberrations, microglial migration and chemokine signaling, and spatial transcriptomics	Robin Stephens, PhD, Professor, Associate Professor and Director, NeuroInflammation. Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience Rutgers University Astrid Cardona, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas, San Antonio Bala Natarajan, PhD., Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Kansas State University	Extramural
Retinal-Brain axis in neuroinflammation and neuroinfectious disease Subtopics: Retinal neuroinflammatory markers of cerebral malaria, Modeling microglia dynamics, retinal-brain spatial transcriptomics	Wenbo Zhang, PhD, Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Neurosciences, UTMB Robin Stephens, PhD, Professor, Associate Professor and Director, NeuroInflammation. Department of Pharmacology, Physiology ad Neuroscience Rutgers University Bala Natarajan, PhD., Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Kansas State University	Extramural
Multimodal large area fluorescence and nonlinear optical microscopy optical biopsy for head and neck cancers	Rongguang Liang, PhD, Professor, Optical Engineering, University of Arizona Xingde Li, Professor, PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Suimin Qiu, MD/PhD, Professor, Dept of Pathology, UTMB Orly Coblens, MD, Associate Professor, Dept of Otolaryngology, UTMB Viran J. Ranasinghe, MD, Assistant Professor, Dept of Otolaryngology, UTMB Alejandro Villasante-Tezanos, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Data Science	Extramural
Effect of tumor mechano-microenvironment on metabolic programming in glioblastoma: Multiomics and Label-Free Optical Metabolic Imaging	Bartosz Szczesny, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Neurosciences Massoud Motamedi, PhD. Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Neurosciences Stefan Bossman, PhD, University Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Kansas Medical Center Bala Natarajan, PhD., Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Kansas State University	Intramural / Extramural

Qing Yang

Project Title	Collaborator(s)
Targeting Spinal Dural Mast Cell Activation to Prevent Neurobehavioral Dysfunction after SCI	Xiaoyong Bao, Zizhen Wu, DTN, UTMB Dustin Green, Texas A&M University	Intramural & Extramural
Targeting Perineural Mast Cells to Alleviate the Adverse Effects of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy.	Zizhen Wu, DTN, UTMB Dustin Green, Texas A&M University	Intramural & Extramural
Prenatal Opioid Exposure Reprograms the Offspring Gut Microbiome to Promote Chronic Pain and Neurodegeneration	Ping Wu, UTMB	Intramural
Identification and characterization of ion channel-associated proteins and protein–protein interactions involved in the development of chronic pain.	Haiqing Zhao, Zizhen Wu, UTMB	Intramural & Extramural
The roles of Piezo1 and Piezo2 in secondary neurodegeneration following spinal cord injury (SCI).	Zizhen Wu, UTMB	Intramural
Gut microbiome–sensory neuron crosstalk as a determinant of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy susceptibility	Zizhen Wu, UTMB, Salahadin Abdi, Neeraj Saini, MD Anderson Cancer Center	Intramural & Extramural
FGF13 Drives Paclitaxel-Induced Neuropathic Pain by Remodeling Nav1.7-Associated Sodium Channel Function in Sensory Neurons	Fernanda Laezza, Subo Yuan, UTMB	Intramural