New Grant Awards September 2026

August 28, 2026 • 3:49 p.m.

	Qingjie Li, PhD Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, John Sealy School of Medicine Awarded a new two-year Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas research grant award for 'Development of ASB-1 as a novel therapeutic for prevention and treatment of colitis-associated colorectal cancer"
	Agenor Limon-Ruiz, PhD Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Neurology, John Sealy School of Medicine; Director, Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Awarded a new National Institutes of Health - Office of the Director biomedical research support shared instrumentation grant award for "Preparative and analytical HPLC system for the production of high-quality, standardized soluble amyloid aggregates"
	Bartosz Szczesny, PhD Professor of Research, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, John Sealy School of Medicine Awarded a new two-year National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke research grant award for "Development of a Mouse Model to Investigate the Role of ZBP1 in Neuroinflammation"
	Wenbo Zhang, PhD Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, John Sealy School of Medicine Awarded a new five-year National Institute on Aging research grant award for "Epac1 Signaling Promotes Retinal Neuronal Injury During Tauopathy"

Surendra Sharma, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics, John Sealy School of Medicine

Balaji Krishnan, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, John Sealy School of Medicine

Awarded a new four-year National Institute on Aging research grant award for "ApoE-Tau axis in preeclampsia, a severe pregnancy complication, and neurodegeneration"