Six faculty awarded incentive grants to submit a second R01

Six School of Medicine faculty projects were recently funded through an AMC21 initiative giving NIH-funded investigators incentive to submit a second R01.

The projects, chosen based on scientific merit, were eligible for $50,000 per year for a period of up to two years, pending appropriate progress and achieving benchmarks. The goal is to have a new funded R01 by the second year. The next cycle for funding for the second R01 incentive grants willl open in fall 2018. 

Jayme Locke, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Surgery 
"Promoting Increases in Living Organ donation via Telehealth-based Navigation (PILOT-N)"

James George, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Surgery
"Mononuclear phagocytes in the pathogensis of acute kidney injury"

Ganesh Halade, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Medicine 
"Lipoxygenase Signaling in Heart Failure Pathology"

Marek Napierala, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics 
"Defining the impact of Frataxin point mutations of Friedreich’s ataxia pathogensis"

Kai Jiao, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Genetics
"Epigenetic regulation of OXPHOS gene expression in embryonic hearts"

Christian Faul, Ph.D., associate professor in the Division of Nephrology in the Department of Medicine
"Changes in phosphate metabolism cause pathologic cardiac remodeling in chronic kidney disease"