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August 2023 Research Awards

August 2023 Research Awards

Investigator Sponsor Type Project Title Begin Date End Date Awarded Dollars
Sandeep Batra Public Health Institute Renewal (not prev committed) 3U10CA180886-10S1 NCTN PCR 3/1/2023 2/28/2025 $70,000.00
Andrew R O'Brien National Alliance Of Sickle Cell Centers New Achieving Understanding of the Natural history of sickle cell Trait (AUNT) 8/1/2022 7/31/2025 $53,577.00
T George Hornby Rehabilitation Hospital Of Indiana New Activity-Based Therapy for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $14,979.00
Tamika C Zapolski Boston University New Addressing alcohol use related health disparities: A hybrid-effectiveness implementation study of a culturally adapted MI for Latinx alcohol and drug users 5/5/2023 6/30/2024 $15,416.00
Kevin Moss University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill New Age cohort changes in oral conditions and life transitions in the United States Health and Retirement Study 5/22/2023 7/31/2023 $5,608.00
Stacey Elaine Tarvin Emory University New ALE11 - Molecular Regulation of B cells and T cells in Human SLE // AJA01 Protocol 5/1/2023 4/30/2024 $149,258.00
Abhishek Khemka American College Of Cardiology New American College of Cardiology Clinical Trial Research Award 12/1/2022 12/31/2023 $10,000.00
Tatiana M Foroud Michael J Fox Foundation For Parkinsons Research Renewal (not prev committed) Biorepository Cores 6/1/2023 12/31/2023 $2,598,520.00
Naikui Liu Indiana Department Of Health New Carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 as a novel target for therapeutic intervention after spinal cord injury 7/1/2023 6/30/2025 $160,000.00
Tamika C Zapolski University Of Michigan New CBPR: Extending the Use of Innovative Methodologies in the Behavioral & Social Sciences (Mental Health and Burnout Programming for High School Teachers) 12/1/2022 7/31/2023 $1,950.00
Yunlong Liu Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville New Centrally-linked longitudinal peripheral biomarkers of AD in multi-ethnic populations - Core 1 - Omics 3/15/2023 2/29/2024 $1,150,190.00
Chi Zhang Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville New Centrally-linked longitudinal peripheral biomarkers of AD in multi-ethnic populations - Project 1 3/15/2023 2/29/2024 $12,170.00
Shannon L Thompson Riley Children's Foundation Renewal (not prev committed) Child Protection Grant FY24 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $180,000.00
Patricia Arlene Olson American Academy Of Neurology New Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Migraine 10/1/2023 9/30/2025 $150,000.00
Sarah Elizabeth Wiehe Indiana Department Of Health Renewal (not prev committed) Community Health Partnerships - Hoosier Health and Wellness Alliance FY24 10/1/2023 9/30/2024 $40,000.00
Sarah Elizabeth Wiehe Indiana Department Of Health Renewal (not prev committed) Community Health Partnerships - Indiana Joint Asthma Coalition FY24 9/1/2023 8/31/2024 $49,150.00
Michelle Casey Starr National Institute Of Diabetes, Digestive & Kidney New Consensus Workshop to Address Kidney Health in High-Risk Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Graduates 8/15/2023 7/31/2024 $8,000.00
Renzhi Han National Heart, Lung And Blood Institute New Controllable base editing therapy for DMD 9/1/2023 8/31/2024 $599,523.00
Roland W Herzog University Of Missouri New CRISPR editing therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy 7/15/2023 6/30/2024 $63,400.00
Misty Dawn Shields Coriell Institute For Medical Research New Defining Mechanisms of Acquired Chemoresistance for Novel Therapeutic Development in Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $50,000.00
Jonathan Nicholas Flak National Institute Of Diabetes, Digestive & Kidney New Defining the neurocircuit activated by the VMH to control energy expenditure. 8/17/2023 5/31/2024 $353,067.00
D Wade Clapp Riley Children's Foundation Renewal (not prev committed) Department of Pediatrics Faculty Recruitment Fund 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $3,200,000.00
Martha Rodriguez Childhood Arthritis And Rheumatology Research Alliance Renewal (not prev committed) Deriving Research Priorities in Neuropsychiatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Children 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $7,020.00
Arthur Hamie Owora Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality New Developing a Passive Digital Marker for the Prediction of Childhood Asthma Treatment Response 8/1/2023 7/31/2024 $41,576.00
Yaoqi Alan Wang National Cancer Institute New Developing Novel Therapeutic Approaches Targeting Macrophages in GBM 4/1/2023 3/31/2024 $355,317.00
Naro Biswas National Heart, Lung And Blood Institute New Development of a cellular therapy product with single specificity and improved persistence to prevent immunity to biotherapeutics 8/1/2023 7/31/2024 $212,212.00
Chi Zhang National Institute Of General Medical Sciences New Development of data driven and AI empowered systems biology to study human diseases 8/15/2023 6/30/2024 $392,323.00
Nathan James VanDusen National Institute Of Child Health, Human Devl. New Development of tools for rapid systematic refinement of in vivo gene editing technologies 8/15/2023 8/14/2025 $425,348.00
Carmella Evans-Molina National Institute Of Diabetes, Digestive & Kidney Renewal (not prev committed) Diabetes and Obesity Training Grant 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $304,716.00
Ronald C. Wek National Institute Of Diabetes, Digestive & Kidney Renewal (not prev committed) Diabetes and Obesity Training Grant 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $304,716.00
D Wade Clapp Riley Children's Foundation Renewal (not prev committed) Division Chief Recruitment 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $1,493,426.00
Harikrishna Nakshatri University Of Notre Dame New Engineered hybrid aging model for disease progression 6/13/2023 5/31/2024 $36,520.00
Shannon Hamilton Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Foundation New Evaluating the Influence of Provider Bias, Parental Expectation and Race/Ethnicity in Pediatric Antibiotic Prescribing Practices 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $50,000.00
Bradley N. Bohnstedt Corewell Health New EVOLVE Retrospective 7/31/2023 2/29/2024 $4,500.00
Kathy D. Miller Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation New Exploiting unique biology for therapeutic benefit in black patients with breast cancer 8/24/2023 8/23/2025 $400,000.00
Don B Sanders Cystic Fibrosis Foundation New First/Second Year Clinical Fellowship 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $62,000.00
Carmella Evans-Molina Riley Children's Foundation New George and Frances Ball Foundation 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $50,000.00
Stanley J Tretter Indiana Medical Education Board New IMEB Family Medicine Residency Grant, 2023-2024 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $58,401.00
Travis Jon Dams Indiana Medical Education Board New IMEB Family Medicine Residency Grant, 2023-2024 - Arnett 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $58,619.00
Justin K Whitt Indiana Medical Education Board New IMEB Family Medicine Residency Grant, 2023-2024 - Ball 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $72,441.00
Brock Dale McMillen Indiana Medical Education Board New IMEB Family Medicine Residency Grant, 2023-2024, FMC 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $93,456.00
Megan Song McHenry Johns Hopkins University New IMPAACT Leadership Group 2/1/2023 11/30/2023 $45,202.00
Brady K Atwood National Institute On Alcohol Abuse And Alcoholism New Impact of prenatal opioid exposure on corticostriatal circuits that modulate alcohol-related behaviors 8/16/2023 5/31/2024 $585,574.00
Jenny S Morgan Conquer Cancer Foundation New Implementing a Breast Cancer Early Detection and Ultrasound Intervention for Cervical Cancer Screening Providers 7/4/2022 6/30/2023 $50,000.00
Don B Sanders Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Renewal (not prev committed) IN-182/182 - Riley Hospital for Children Indiana University Medical Center (Sanders, Don B.) 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $307,140.00
Victoria L Champion Indiana Department Of Health New Indiana Cancer Consortium Fiscal Agent 6/30/2023 6/29/2024 $118,650.00
Roman M Natoli Omega Medical Grants Association New "Indiana University School of Medicine (Trauma)
Fellowship 2023-2024" 5/11/2023 5/10/2024 $12,500.00
D Wade Clapp Riley Children's Foundation New IU/Riley Children's Behavioral Health Support 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $2,191,331.00
D Wade Clapp Riley Children's Foundation Renewal (not prev committed) IU/Riley Pediatric Subspecialty and Discipline Support 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $1,667,243.00
Peter H. Schwartz Patient-centered Outcomes Research Institute New Large-Scale Implementation of a Decision Aid about Colorectal Cancer Screening 8/1/2023 7/31/2026 $2,073,517.00
Teresa Marie Damush Patient-centered Outcomes Research Institute New Large-Scale Implementation of a Decision Aid about Colorectal Cancer Screening 8/1/2023 7/31/2026 $2,073,517.00
Zhihong(Joe) Yang National Institute On Alcohol Abuse And Alcoholism New Long noncoding RNA H19 mediating alternative splicing in ALD pathogenesis 8/15/2023 7/31/2024 $414,381.00
Jeff Dage Michael J Fox Foundation For Parkinsons Research New LRRK2 Cohort Consortium Analyses 8/22/2023 8/21/2025 $189,587.45
Kelly Nicole Holohan Nudelman Michael J Fox Foundation For Parkinsons Research New LRRK2 Cohort Consortium Analyses 8/22/2023 8/21/2025 $189,587.45
Kristen Ann Russ Michael J Fox Foundation For Parkinsons Research New LRRK2 Cohort Consortium Analyses 8/22/2023 8/21/2025 $189,587.45
Carmella Evans-Molina Riley Children's Foundation New Luke Bracken Wiese Fund for Juvenile Diabetes at Riley Hospital for Children 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $100,000.00
Jing Ma National Institute On Alcohol Abuse And Alcoholism New Mechanism of neutrophilic NCF1 in alcohol-associated liver disease pathogenesis 8/8/2023 7/31/2025 $147,202.00
Mary R. Ciccarelli Indiana Family And Social Services Administration Renewal (not prev committed) Medicaid-funded Children with Medical Complexity Care Coordination Pilot 7/1/2021 3/31/2024 $4,385,789.00
Mark R. Kelley National Cancer Institute New Metabolic flux analysis and PDX models to understand therapeutic vulnerabilities following inhibition of Ref-1 redox signaling in pancreatic cancer 8/1/2023 7/31/2024 $466,315.00
Melissa L Fishel National Cancer Institute New Metabolic flux analysis and PDX models to understand therapeutic vulnerabilities following inhibition of Ref-1 redox signaling in pancreatic cancer 8/1/2023 7/31/2024 $466,315.00
Savanna H. Bruski University Of Illinois New Midwest Integration of National HIV Curriculum 3/1/2023 8/31/2023 $10,000.00
Rupa Radhakrishnan National Institute On Drug Abuse New Multimodal Fetal and Placental Imaging and Biomarkers of Clinical Outcomes in Opioid Use Disorder 8/15/2023 7/31/2026 $3,145,302.00
Naga P. Chalasani University Of Texas Southwestern Medical Center New National Liver Cancer Screening Trial 3/1/2023 7/31/2023 $45,985.00
Roland W Herzog Stanford University New Novel AAV vector generation methods to prevent immunogenic unmethylated CpGsthat trigger efficacy-limiting CTLs in human gene therapy 5/1/2023 4/30/2024 $47,499.00
Roman M Natoli U.s. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity New Optimizing Muscle Function in Composite Tissue Injuries with Segmental Bone Defects 5/1/2023 4/30/2026 $724,697.00
Harikrishna Nakshatri Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation New Oxygen Tension - Dependent changes in Breast Cancer Kinome and Drug Sensitivity 8/17/2023 8/16/2025 $79,636.00
Andreia Beth Alexander University Of California, San Francisco New Post-Roe Indiana: An Ethnography of Patient Treatment During Pregnancy Losses, Termination, and Complications 1/1/2023 6/30/2024 $127,287.00
Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds University Of California, San Francisco New Post-Roe Indiana: An Ethnography of Patient Treatment During Pregnancy Losses, Termination, and Complications 1/1/2023 6/30/2024 $127,287.00
D Wade Clapp Riley Children's Foundation Renewal (not prev committed) Riley Children's Foundation Annual Endowment Awards for IU/Riley Programs 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $4,823,616.00
D Wade Clapp Riley Children's Foundation Renewal (not prev committed) Riley Children's Endowment Community Education/Safety Store 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $175,000.00
Stephanie Ware Riley Children's Foundation Renewal (not prev committed) Riley Children's Foundation Clinical Program for Metabolism and Genetics 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $115,000.00
D Wade Clapp Riley Children's Foundation Renewal (not prev committed) Riley Pediatric Research Scholars 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $550,000.00
Tatiana M Foroud Michael J Fox Foundation For Parkinsons Research Renewal (not prev committed) Screening, Pathology, Digital, Travel, and Administrative Cores 6/1/2023 12/31/2023 $3,011,156.42
Sheketha Renay Hauser National Institute On Alcohol Abuse And Alcoholism New Serotonin-7 receptors and Alcohol-seeking Behaviors 8/15/2023 5/31/2024 $494,631.00
Christopher Michael Robinson American Heart Association Incorporated New Sex-specific CD8 T cell response to Coxsackievirus B3 7/1/2023 6/30/2026 $300,000.00
Bernardino Ghetti National Institute Neurological Disorders & Stroke Renewal (not prev committed) Structure of amyloid fibrils in human neurodegenerative diseases and aging 9/1/2023 8/31/2026 $3,924,261.00
Ruben Vidal National Institute Neurological Disorders & Stroke Renewal (not prev committed) Structure of amyloid fibrils in human neurodegenerative diseases and aging 9/1/2023 8/31/2026 $3,924,261.00
Andres Martin Acosta Dana Farber Cancer Institute New Targeting Delta-Like Ligand 3 (DLL3) in Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer 5/1/2023 4/30/2024 $24,027.00
Baohua Zhou National Cancer Institute New Targeting FOXP3 mRNA splicing for breast cancer immunotherapy 7/27/2023 6/30/2024 $585,212.00
Mateusz Opyrchal National Cancer Institute New Targeting FOXP3 mRNA splicing for breast cancer immunotherapy 7/27/2023 6/30/2024 $585,212.00
Xiongbin Lu National Cancer Institute New Targeting FOXP3 mRNA splicing for breast cancer immunotherapy 7/27/2023 6/30/2024 $585,212.00
Salvatore Condello U.s. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity New Targeting Regulators of Outside-In Signaling in Ovarian Cancer 8/1/2023 7/31/2026 $713,250.00
Kathy D. Miller Johns Hopkins University New TBCRC053 P-RAD: A Randomized Study of Preoperative Chemotherapy, Pembrolizumab and No, Low or High Dose RADiation in Node-Positive, HER2-Negative Breast Cancer -Cohort A Sub-Protocol Title: A Randomized Study of Preoperative Chemotherapy, Pembrolizumab a 7/18/2023 7/17/2028 $7,895.00
Kathy D. Miller Johns Hopkins University New TBCRC053 P-RAD: A Randomized Study of Preoperative Chemotherapy, Pembrolizumab and No, Low or High Dose RADiation in Node-Positive, HER2-Negative Breast Cancer -Cohort A Sub-Protocol Title: A Randomized Study of Preoperative Chemotherapy, Pembrolizumab a 7/18/2023 7/17/2028 $17,044.00
Kaice LaFavers National Institute Of Diabetes, Digestive & Kidney New The protective role of kidney-derived Tamm Horsfall protein (Uromodulin) in sepsis 8/15/2023 7/31/2024 $249,000.00
Tarah Jean Ballinger Johns Hopkins University New The STOP-HER2 Trial: A Phase 2 Study of Stopping Trastuzumab - Outcomes in Patients with HER2+ Metastatic Breast Cancer 8/15/2023 8/14/2028 $167,060.00
Fletcher A White Indiana Department Of Health New Therapeutic Strategies for Pain Due to Mild Traumatic Brain Injury 7/1/2023 6/30/2025 $160,000.00
Shannon L Thompson Riley Children's Foundation Renewal (not prev committed) Trauma Treatment Services 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $140,000.00
Tanna Janelle Boyer American Society Of Anesthesiologists New Unlocking Potential: Empowering Diverse, Creative Minds from Community Colleges to Pursue Medicine 10/1/2023 9/30/2024 $5,000.00
Reuben Kapur Riley Children's Foundation Renewal (not prev committed) Wells Center Bridge Funding 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $650,000.00
D Wade Clapp Riley Children's Foundation Renewal (not prev committed) Wells General Fund 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 $6,288,000.00
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