New Grant Awards July 2026

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M. Firoze Khan, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology, John Sealy School of Medicine

Awarded a new National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) research grant award for "Understanding the role of gut microbiome in trichloroethene-mediated autoimmunity"

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Guillaume C. Onyeaghala, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, John Sealy School of Medicine

Awarded a new National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) research grant award for "Integrative metagenomics & metatranscriptomics features of enterohepatic recirculation in kidney transplant recipients"

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Rocksheng Zhong, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, John Sealy School of Medicine

Awarded a new research grant award from the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law for "Artificial Intelligence in Forensic Psychiatry: Identifying Predictors of Competence to Stand Trial from Forensic Reports Using Large Language Models"

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Hua Liu, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, John Sealy School of Medicine

Massoud Motamedi, PhD
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, John Sealy School of Medicine

New National Eye Institute (NEI) research grant award for "The Role of Sirt6 in Acrolein-Induced Ocular Injury"