Research Wire: December 2015


12.18.15
Heather L. True-Krob, PhD, associate professor of cell biology and physiology, and Conrad C. Weihl, PhD, MD, associate professor of neurology, have received a five-year, $2.74 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of theNational Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Chaperone Dysfunction in Myopathy: Connecting Yeast Genetics with Mouse Models.”


12.18.15

Sergej Djuranovic, PhD, assistant professor of cell biology and physiology at the School of Medicine, has received a five-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences of theNational Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Mechanisms for Modulation of miRNA-mediated Gene Silencing.”


12.14.15
Eugene Oltz, PhD, professor of pathology and immunology at the School of Medicine, has received a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Topological Mechanisms of DNA Break Repair in Lymphocytes.”


12.14.15
Nima Mosammaparast, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and immunology at the School of Medicine, has received a five-year, $1.74 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Mechanism and Regulation of the DNA Alkylation Damage Response.”  Mosammaparast also received a 2015 American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) Young Physician-Scientist Award.


12.14.15
Ronald Jackups, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and immunology and of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, and assistant medical director of the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Blood Bank and Hematology Laboratory, has received a one-year, $35,835 grant from The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital for research titled “Development of Clinical Decision Support Tools for Patient Blood Management.”


12.11.15
Richard Axelbaum, PhD, the Stifel & Quinette Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering Science in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, received a $123,782 grant from NASA for research titled “Flame Design: A Novel Approach to Clean Efficient Diffusion Flames.”  ​


12.11.15
Raymond Arvidson, PhD, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, received a five-year, $9,822,807 grant from NASA for a project titled “The Planetary Data System Geosciences Node at Washington University in St. Louis.”


12.4.15
Breanne Leigh Harty, a graduate student in the laboratory of Kelly Monk, PhD, assistant professor of developmental biology in the School of Medicine, has received a two-year, $56,246 predoctoral fellowship award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Molecular Control of Myelinating Glial Cell Development by FBXW7.”


12.3.15
Sarah Bobmeyer, assistant director of evaluation in the Center for Public Health Systems Science at the Brown School, received $123,065 of a two-year, $500,000 grant from the Missouri Foundation for Health for her continuing project with the Institute for Public Health evaluating expansion of health coverage.


12.2.15
Jeffrey Gamble, a doctoral student in engineering, is developing a new cell culture platform that will allow biomedical engineers to better evaluate communication between immature spinal cord neurons and surviving neurons after a spinal cord injury. He works in the lab of Dennis Barbour, MD, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, who received a two-year, nearly $250,000 grant from the University of Missouri’s Spinal Cord Injuries Research Program. For more details, visit the School of Engineering site.


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