The UNMC College of Medicine received grant and funding awards representing more than $1.7 million in new funding in July. Awards included:
Peng Zhong, PhD, neurological sciences, received a grant of $414,450 from the DHHS/NIH/NIDA for a study of mechanistic studies of opiate withdrawal-induced sleep disturbances.
Scot Ouellette, PhD, pathology, microbiology and immunology, received a grant of $394,470 from DHHS/NIH/NIGMS for investigating the function of bacterial cytoskeletal elements in the division and growth of the FtsZ-less chlamydia.
Erika Boesen, PhD, cellular and integrative physiology, received a grant of $299,998 from the U.S. Army/USAMRAA/CDMRP for a study of VAP-1 and methylglyoxal as novel targets in lupus nephritis.
Heather Thomas, MD, pediatrics-pulmonary, received a grant of $158,430 from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for the Cystic Fibrosis Care, Teaching and Research Center.
Iqbal Ahmad, PhD, ophthalmology and visual sciences, received a grant of $110,000 from the Nebraska DHHS (LB606) for the study “Stem Cell Modeling of Non-Cell Autonomous Neurodegeneration.”
Amulya Yellala, MBBS, internal medicine-oncology/hematology, received a grant of $56,050 from the Hoosier Research Network for a study of ribociclib and endocrine treatment of physician’s choice for locoregional, recurrent, resected hormone receptor-positive HER2-negative breast cancer.
Howard Gendelman, MD, pharmacology and experimental neuroscience, received a grant of $53,000 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook for a study of the effects of cART and opioids on neural circuitry in the context of HIV-1 infection.
Aaron Barksdale, MD, emergency medicine, received a grant of $42,001 from the University of Michigan for POST-ICECAP (Patterns Of Survivors’ recovery Trajectories in the ICECAP trial).
Shilpa Buch, PhD, pharmacology and experimental neuroscience, received a grant of $39,961 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the Rural Drug Addiction Research Center.
John Davis, PhD, obstetrics and gynecology, received a grant of $29,999 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the study “Androgen Excess Ovarian Micoenvironment on Bovine Folliculogenesis.”
Stacey Gilk, PhD, pathology, microbiology and immunology, received a grant of $11,000 from the DHHS/NIH/NIAID for the annual meeting of the American Society of Rickettsiology.
Industry-sponsored grants and contracts:
The following industry-sponsored grants and contracts were received.
Peng Zhong, PhD, neurological sciences, received funding for the study “Mechanisms of Sleep Disturbances in Mouse Models of Tauopathy.”