2021 Research Opportunity Seed Fund Projects and Awardees with Collaborators

For FY 2021, all of the awardees were associated with collaboration with FIU Preeminent and Emerging Preeminent Programs

Title of Project: Discovering new human DNA topoisomerase I inhibitors to treat SARS-CoV-2-induced severe inflammation

PI:

Fenfei Leng, PhD

Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Co-PIs:

Marc Giulianotti, PhD

Principal Scientist and Director of Chemistry Operations

FIU – Torrey Pines Institute

Center for Translational Science

Clemencia Pinilla, PhD

Principal Scientist FIU – Torrey Pines Institute

Center for Translational Science

Andrea Raymond, PhD

Associate Professor, Immunology and NanoMedicine

Prem Chapagain, PhD

Associate Professor, Physics

Kim Tieu, PhD

Professor & Chair, Environmental Health Sciences

Title of Project: Mechanism of Gene-Pyrethroid Interaction and Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Alzheimer’s Disease

PI:

Muhammad M. Hossain, DVM, MS, PhD

Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences

Co-PI:

Jason R Richardson, MS, PhD, DABT

Professor, Environmental Health Sciences

Associate Dean for Research, Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work

Additional Investigator:

Timothy A. Allen, PhD

Assistant Professor, Psychology

Title of Project: Disentangling working memory deficits in children with ADHD at the cognitive and neural levels: Towards a mechanistic computational modeling approach

PI:

Ilke Oztekin, PhD

Assistant Research Professor, Psychology

Co-PI:

Joseph Raiker, PhD

Associate Professor, Psychology

Additional Investigators:

Anthony S. Dick, PhD

Associate Professor, Psychology

Paulo Graziano, PhD

Associate Professor, Psychology

Mark A. Finlayson, PhD

Eminent Scholar Chaired Associate Professor, Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences

Timothy Hayes, PhD

Assistant Professor, Psychology

Title of Project: Community-Engaged Research for the Creation of Bilingual Literacy Supports for Haitian Parents and Infants Using a Book and Video in Pediatric Visits

PI:

Melissa Baralt, PhD

Associate Professor, Modern Languages

Co-PIs:

Nicolas Andre, PhD

Associate Teaching Professor, Modern Languages

Shewonda Leger, PhD

Assistant Professor, English

FIU Expert Advisory Committee:

Chanadra Young Whiting, EdD

Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences

Keisha McIntyre-McCullough, EdSp, EdD

College of Arts, Sciences & Education

Shayl Griffith, PhD

College of Arts, Sciences & Education

Michèle Jean-Gilles, PhD

Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work

External Faculty and Community Leaders:

Lisa Blair, CEO

Miami-Dade Family Learning Partnership

Santra Denis, Executive Director

Miami Workers Center and Avanse Ansanm

John Hutton, MD

Pediatrician, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

Need Assistance?

For more information on the Office of Research Development, please contact Maureen Pelham via email: maureen.pelham@fiu.edu or phone: 305-348-0485.