James Janetka, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, along with Henry Han, PhD, assistant professor of neurological surgery, both in the School of Medicine, have received a one-year, $25,000 grant from the University Research Strategic Alliance program for research titled “Selective Diagnostic Imaging Agents for Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy Plaques in Alzheimer’s Disease.”
Michael E. Wysession, PhD, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received $96,516 of a three-year grant totaling $374,999 from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Mapping the Middle of the Mantle-Core Dynamic.”
Himadri Pakrasi, PhD, the Myron and Sonya Glassberg/Albert and Blanche Greensfelder Distinguished University Professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has received $300,000 in the final year of a $2,498,500 seventeen-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for research titled “Redox Factors in the Thylakoid Lumen for Protection and Repair of the Photosynthetic Apparatus.”
Christine Kirmaier, PhD, research professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received $350,000 in the final year of an overall seven-year, $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for research titled “Controlling Electron Transfer Pathways in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers.”
Jeremy Buhler, PhD, professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, has received a two-year, $249,966 grant from the
National Science Foundation to develop new designs, techniques and implementation strategies to make programs on Single Instruction, Multiple Data computer processors more efficient. Buhler will work with
Roger Chamberlain, PhD, also a professor of computer science and engineering, to build software components for Graphics Processing Units that perform all necessary remapping operations behind the scenes, allowing the programmer to focus on describing only the interesting parts of a computation. For more details, visit the
School of Engineering site.
Ramaswamy Govindan, MD, professor of medicine, and Mark Watson, MD, PhD, associate professor of pathology and immunology at the School of Medicine and director of the Tissue Procurement and Multiplexed Gene Analysis Laboratories, have received a five-year, $1.55 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Genomic Harbingers of Brain Metastasis in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.”
Monika Vig, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and immunology at the School of Medicine, has received a four-year, $792,000 grant from the American Cancer Society for research titled “Molecular Dissection of Store-Operated Calcium Entry in Cancer Metastasis”; and 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 “CRAC Channel Components and Molecular Basis of Store-Operated Calcium Entry.”
Hani Suleiman, MD, PhD, instructor in pathology and immunology at the School of Medicine, has received a three-year, $225,000 grant from theNephCure Foundation for research titled “A Novel Superresolution Imaging Approach of Glomerular Disease.”
Richard Axelbaum, PhD, the Stifel & Quinette Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering Science in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, has received a two-year, $996,652 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Tech Lab for “Integrated Flue Gas Purification and Latent Heat Recovery for Pressurized Oxy-Comubstion.”
Jr-Shin Li, PhD, Das Family Career Development Associate Professor of electrical and systems engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and associate professor of biology and biomedical sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $280,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for “Optimal Pulse Design in Quantum Control.”
Erik Herzog, PhD, professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, and Jeanne Nerbonne, PhD, professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, have received $60,000 in the third year of a four-year grant expected to total $348,000 from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences for “Neuronal Excitability in the Regulation of Circadian Rhythms.”
Yixin Chen, PhD, associate professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, has received a three-year, $248,790 grant from the National Science Foundation for “III: Small: Collaborative Research: Towards Interpretable Machine Learning.”
