2.23.18
Brian Rauch, research assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded $67,000 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to continue support for particle astrophysics research with ANITA-V, the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna. Washington University provided on-the-ground support in Antarctica for the December 2016 launch of a scientific balloon carrying the ANITA radio telescope instrument to detect ultra-high energy cosmic ray neutrinos.
2.23.18
Xiaowei Wang, associate professor of radiation oncology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “MicroRNA Biomarkers for Oropharyngeal Cancer.”
2.23.18
Kendall Blumer, professor of cell biology and physiology at the School of Medicine, received a four-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Pharmacological Targeting of Galpha Subunits in Disease.”
2.23.18
Rodney Newberry, MD, professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, received a four-year, $1.65 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Goblet Cells in Intestinal Immune Homeostasis.”
2.23.18
Lavinia Sheets, assistant professor of otolaryngology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Roles of the Synapse in Hair-Cell Pathology.”
2.16.18
Todd Braver, professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences and of radiology at the School of Medicine, has been awarded a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue his research into mindfulness training. The unique approach for this new phase of his work is studying identical twins.
2.12.18
Jose Zevallos, MD, associate professor of otolaryngology and director of the Division of Head & Neck Oncologic Surgery at the School of Medicine, received a five-year, $2.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Development of a Four-Class, Molecular Subtyping Diagnostic for HPV-negative Head and Neck Cancer.”
2.12.18
Daniel Ory, MD, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Cardiology and professor of cell biology and physiology at the School of Medicine, received a four-year, $2.1 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)for research titled “Intravenous delivery of 2-hydroxypropyl-Beta-cyclodextrin for treatment of Niemann-Pick C disease.”
2.12.18
Brian Carpenter, professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences, received $57,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of a five-year, $286,390 total award, in support of enhancing undergraduate preparation for research in aging and neurologic diseases.
2.12.18
Deborah Lenschow, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and of pathology and immunology, and Michael Diamond, MD, PhD, the Herbert S. Gasser Professor of Medicine, professor of molecular microbiology, and of pathology and immunology, both at the School of Medicine, received a four-year, $2.1 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “IFN Dependent Control of Acute and Chronic Chikungunya Virus Induced Disease.”
2.12.18
Luis F.Z. Batista, assistant professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, received a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Molecular Consequences of Telomerase Dysfunction During Hematopoietic Development.”
2.12.18
David Balota, professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences, received $23,000 in funding from the National Science Foundation for a research project on rejuvenating the English lexicon.
2.6.18
Vladimir Kefalov, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences and of neuroscience at the School of Medicine, and Jeannie Chen, of the University of Southern California, received a four-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Calcium Homeostasis in Mammalian Rod and Cone Photoreceptors.”
2.6.18
Mark Warchol, professor of otolaryngology, of audiology and communication sciences, and of neuroscience at the School of Medicine, received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Role of the Innate Immune System in the Survival of Auditory Neurons.”
2.6.18
Jin-Moo Lee, MD, PhD, professor of neurology and of radiology at the School of Medicine and of biomedical engineering at the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and Abhinav Diwan, MD, associate professor of medicine and of cell biology and physiology at the School of Medicine, received a five-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Targeting TFEB To Microglia and Monocytes to Enhance Amyloid Degradation.”