2020 Faculty Grantsmanship Funded Projects and Awardees with Collaborators

Targeting neuroinflammation and epigenetic modifications in Alzheimer’s disease: A novel nanotechnology approach

Principal Investigator:

Venkata Atluri
Assistant Professor, College of Medicine
Immunology & Nano-Medicine
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Collaborators:

  • Prem Chapagain (Associate Professor, Department of Physics).
  • Nagesh Kolishetti (Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology, College of Medicine).

Budget: $25,000

Mechanisms of Arsenic-induced Cancer Stem Cell Formation, Metastasis and Therapy Resistance in Ovarian and Triple-Negative Breast Cancers

Principal Investigator:

Diana Azzam
Assistant Professor, College of Public Health & Social Work
Environmental Health Sciences
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Collaborators:

  • Andrea Raymond (Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology, College of Medicine).
  • Kim Tieu (Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences; College of Public Health & Social Work).
  • Tomas Guilarte (Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences; College of Public Health & Social Work).

Budget: $25,000

The Mediating Role of Trauma and Stress in the Relationship between Sleep and Cognition among African-American Midlife Adults

Principal Investigator:

Shanna Burke
Assistant Professor, College of Public Health & Social Work
School of Social Work
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Collaborators:

  • Nicole Fava (Assistant Professor; School of Social Work; College of Public Health & Social Work)
  • Timothy Hayes (Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, CASE)

Budget: $25,000

Exposure Therapy for Auditory Reactivity with Self-regulation (EARS) for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Principal Investigator:

Tana Carson
TE Assistant Professor, College of Nursing & Health Sciences
Department of Occupational Therapy
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Collaborators:

  • Jeremy Pettit (Professor; Department of Psychology & Center for Children and Families, CASE)
  • Aaron Mattfeld (Assistant Professor; Department of Psychology & Center for Children and Families, CASE)
  • Dan Bagner (Professor, Department of Psychology & Center for Children and Families, CASE)
  • Ingris Treminio (Clinical Assistant Professor; College of Nursing & Health Sciences)
  • Zoran Bursac (Professor; Biostatistics, College of Public Health & Social Work)
  • Stacey Reynolds (Associate Professor; Occupational Therapy, Virginia Commonwealth University)
  • Kimberly Carpenter (Assistant Professor; Department of Psychiatry, Duke University)

Budget: $23,358

Multiscale Characterization of Mechanical, Biochemical, and Cellular Heterogeneity at the Aortic Valve/Aortic Root Interface to Guide Valve Tissue Engineering

Principal Investigator:

Darryl Dickerson
Assistant Professor, College of Engineering & Computing
Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering
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Collaborators:

  • Arvind Agarwal (Professor; Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering; College of Engineering & Computing)
  • Charles Dimitroff (Professor, Department of Translational Medicine, College of Medicine)
  • Francisco Fernandez Lima (Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, CASE)
  • Lidia Kos (Professor, Department of Biology, CASE)

Budget: $24,722