Research Wire: April 2016

4.27.16
D.C. Rao, director of the Division of Biostatistics, professor of biostatistics and of biostatistics in genetics and in psychiatry at the School of Medicine, has received a $3.59 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes for Health (NIH) for research titled “Rare Variants for Hypertension in Taiwan Chinese.”


4.27.16
Moe Mahjoub, assistant professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, has received a five-year, $1.72 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Centrosome Dysfunction in Polycystic Kidney Disease.”

 Mahjoub — along with colleagues Steven Brody, MD, the Dorothy R and Hubert C Moog Professor of Pulmonary Diseases in Medicine and a professor of radiology, and Susan Dutcher, a professor of genetics and of cell biology and physiology — also has received a four-year, $2.35 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH for research titled “Regulation of Motile Cilia Assembly in Lung Disease.”


4.27.16
Andrew Gelman, associate professor of surgery and of pathology and immunology, and Delphine Chen, MD, associate professor of radiology and of medicine, both at the School of Medicine, have received a four-year, $2.73 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging of Lung Transplant.”

Gelman, with Daniel Kreisel, MD, professor of pathology and immunology and of surgery at the School of Medicine, also received a four-year, $1.57 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH for research titled “The Role of Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in Lung Allograft Rejection.”


4.7.16
Henric Krawczynski, professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a four-year, $502,000 grant from NASA for research on the “Continued Development of Small-pixel CZT and CdTe Detectors for Future High-angular-resolution Hard X-ray Missions.”


4.7.16
Yoram Rudy, the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering and director of the interdisciplinary Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, received a $374,300 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the latest installment of a 25-year grant for research on cardiac excitation and arrhythmias.


4.7.16
Biologist Sarah C.R. Elgin, Viktor Hamburger Professor of Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $603,903 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “A Genome Brower On-Ramp to Engage Biologists with Big Data.” This project is part of the Genomics Education Partnership (GEP) at the university.


4.7.16
The Brown School’s Center for Social Development’s Refund to Savings program, led by Michal Grinstein-Weiss, has received a one-year, $111,971 grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The program will continue to analyze taxpayer and savings data in conjunction with TurboTax software to help users increase saving at tax time.

Separately, the Refund to Savings program also received a two-year, $539,900 grant from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation to support its work. Visit the Refund to Savings website to learn more about the initiative.


4.5.16
A team led by Lori Setton, of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, received a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue its work studying cells that make up human intervertebral discs in an effort to keep them healthy and functional. The research has the potential to lead to intervertebral disc regeneration and provide relief for millions of Americans who suffer from neck and back pain each year. Read more on the School of Engineering website.


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