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Pilot Funding

Pilot Project Awards | Collaborative Pilot Research Projects Awards | Clinical Research Center Projects Awards

Pilot Projects Awards

Sylvie A. Akohoue, Ph.D., CNS

Assistant Professor / Family and Community Medicine
Title of project: A comprehensive approach to Type 2 diabetes self-management for low-income women
Amount awarded: $50,000

Anthony Archibong, Ph.D.

Associate Professor / Physiology
Title of project: Female fertility preservation using peripheral blood stem cells
Amount awarded: $50,000

Chandravanu Dash, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor / Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research
Title of project: Proteomics analysis of HIV-1 Preintegration Complexes (PICs)
Amount awarded: $50,000

Nahed Ismail, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor / Pathology
Title of project: Analysis of human innate immune responses against intracellular bacteria
Amount awarded: $50,000

Pandu Gangula, Ph.D.

Associate Professor / Department of Physiology
Title of project: Racial/Ethnicity Differences in Vitamin D and Nitric Oxide Synthesis & Function in Premenopausal and Postmenopausal women vasculature
Amount awarded: $50,000

Collaborative Pilot Research Projects Award

Bindong Liu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor / Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research
Title of project: Characterizing GBV-C E2 protein for anti-HIV drug design
Amount awarded: $150,000

Pius N. Nde, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor / Microbiology and Immunology
Title of project: Molecular mechanism of cardiac fibrosis induced by Trypanosoma cruzi infection
Amount awarded: $150,000

Waldemar Popik, Ph.D.

Associate Professor / Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research
Title of project: Role of XMRV in HIVAN pathogenesis
Amount awarded: $150,000

Hua Xie, D.D.S., Ph.D.

Professor / Oral Biology
Title of project: Prevalence and correlation of Porphyromonas gingivalis and Streptococcus cristatu
Amount awarded: $150,000

Clinical Research Center Projects Awards

Sanika S. Chirwa, Ph.D.

Professor / Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Title of project: Sleep Quality and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
Amount awarded: $40,000

Yong Cui,M.D., MSPH

Assistant Professor / Internal Medicine
Title of project: Risk of concurrent use of herbs and conventional drugs in breast cancer patients
Amount awarded: $40,000