New Grant Awards October 2024

Professional photo of Dr. AmithMuhammad Amith, MS, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Data Science, SPPH: new three-year National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) exploratory research grant for "Transforming motivational interviewing into a computable model for automated patient diabetic counseling"
Professional Photo of Dr. GeisbertThomas Geisbert, PhD, Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, JSSOM: new National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) cooperative research project agreement award for "Paramyxoviridae and Bunyavirales Vaccines and Antibodies Center (PABVAX)"
Professional photo of Dr. GuptaVineet Gupta, PhD, Vice President for Innovation, Technology Development and Transfer, and Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, JSSOM: new five-year National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) competing renewal research grant award for "Translating oral CD11b agonist as a novel therapeutic for lupus nephritis"
Professional Photo of Dr. MakishimaTomoko Makishima, MD, PHD, FACS, Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, JSSOM: new five-year National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) research grant award for "Balance Dysfunction Induced by Lassa Virus Infection"
Professional photo of Dr. MehtaNeil Mehta, PhD, MSc, MA, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, SPPH: new five-year National Institute on Aging (NIA) research grant award for "Demography of Immigrant Mortality in the United States: Leveraging Novel Census Linkages to Death Records, Earnings Trajectories, and Residential Mobility"
Professional Photo of Dr. MenonRamkumar Menon, PhD, MS, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Basic Science & Translational Research, JSSOM: new five-year National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) research grant award for "IL-10 Delivery Using Extracellular Vesicles to Delay Preterm Birth"
Professional photo of Dr. MontalbanoMauro Montalbano, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, JSSOM: new two-year National Institute on Aging (NIA) research grant award for "Tau-RNA crosstalk: Alternative Poly-Adenylation (APA) Regulation in Alzheimer's Disease"
Professional Photo of Dr. PaesslerSlobodan Paessler, DVM, PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology, JSSOM: new National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) research grant award for "Exploration of D-Glucose and D-Mannose Metabolism to Target arenaviruses"
Professional photo of Dr. SadygovRovshan Sadygov, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, JSSOM: new four-year National Institute of General Medial Sciences (NIGMS) research grant award for "Protein turnover estimation from fragment ions and precursor enrichment in heavy water labeled LC-MS experiments"
Professional Photo of Dr. SmithElise Smith, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioethics & Health Humanities, SPPH: new National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant award for "Developing a Social Responsibility Tool-Kit for Scientists Working on Cleanup Sites"
Professional photo of Dr. YangJun Yang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, JSSOM: new two-year National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) exploratory research grant for "Silencer-enhancer transition dysregulates interleukin-6 in mucosal epithelial cell plasticity"
Professional Photo of Dr. YangQing Yang, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, JSSOM: new five-year National Cancer Institute (NCI) research grant award for "The role of acute excitation of sensory neurons in the development of paclitaxel-induced peripheral neuropathy"