New Grant Awards November 2025

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John Allen, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, John Sealy School of Medicine

Jia Zhou, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, John Sealy School of Medicine

New five-year National Institute on Drug Abuse research grant award for “Discovery of GPR52 ligand probes for cocaine use disorder”

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Xiaoyong Bao, PhD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, John Sealy School of Medicine

New one-year Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity research grant award for "tRNA-Derived RNA Fragments and Their Potential Role in Mediating Multiple Sclerosis Associated with Epstein-Barr Virus"

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Abbey Berenson, MD, PhD, MMS
Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Women's Health; Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, John Sealy School of Medicine

New five-year National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases physician scientist research grant award for UTMB Women's Health Research Scholars Program

New one-year National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases research grant award for "Human papillomavirus and risk to pregnancy: a cohort study"

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Yunfeng Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, John Sealy School of Medicine

New five-year National Institute for General Medical Sciences outstanding research investigator grant award for "Deciphering Mechanosignaling Using Multi-fluorescence Biomembrane Force Probe"

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Mandy Hill, DrPH, MPH, HIVPCP
Professor and Chair, Department of Population Health and Health Disparities, School of Public and Population Health

New two-year National Institute of Mental Health research grant award for "Leveraging video logs as a bridge to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with tailored messaging to Black women and their healthcare providers in Texas"

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Melissa (Missy) Morrow, PhD
Director, Sealy Center on Aging; Co-Director, Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center; Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, School of Health Professions

James Goodwin, MD
Co-Director, Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center; Professor of Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, John Sealy School of Medicine

New five-year National Institute on Aging research center grant award for the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center. Read more.

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Thomas Smith, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, John Sealy School of Medicine

New four-year National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases research grant award for "Role of norovirus capsid dynamics in adaptive immune evasion"

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Keer Sun, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, John Sealy School of Medicine

New National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases high priority research grant award for "IFN/SOCS1 signaling during post-influenza bacterial infection"