Recently, 11 School of Medicine faculty projects were funded through an AMC21 initiative giving NIH-funded investigators incentive to submit a second R01.
The projects, chosen based on scientific merit, are eligible for $40,000 per year for a period of up to two years, pending appropriate progress and achieving benchmarks. The goal is to have a newly funded R01 by the second year.
The recipients of these awards are:
Ravi Bhatia, M.D.
Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Hematology and Oncology
Title: “Leukemia stem cell regulation and resistance”
Sushant Bhatnagar, Ph.D.
Assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
Title: “A network-based approach to identify and characterize secreted protein regulators of pancreatic islet function in type 2 diabetes”
Jeremy Day, Ph.D.
Associate professor in the Department of Neurobiology
Title: “Reelin signaling and function in cocaine response”
Anita Hjelmeland, Ph.D.
Associate professor in the Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology
Title: “Distinctive roles for the neuronal glucose transporter 3 (GLUT3) in brain invasion”
Natalia Kedishvili, Ph.D.
Professor in Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Title: “Hepatic retinoid metabolism and signaling in starvation and diabetes”
Timmy Lee, M.D., MSPH
Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Title: “Hemodynamic adaptation and vascular remodeling in fistula development”
Christina Muzny, M.D., MSPH
Associate professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Title: “Trichomonas vaginalis repeat infections among men who have sex with women”
Constanza Cortes Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Assistant professor in the Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology
Title: “Investigating age-associated skeletal muscle proteostasis dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease”
Jerzy Szaflarski, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor in the Deaprtment of Neurology
Title: “Neuroinflammation in epilepsy – from imaging with MR spectroscopic thermography (MRS-t) to neuroinflammatory human tissue analysis”
Robert Welner, Ph.D.
Assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology
Title: “Targeting STAT3-mediated metabolic alterations in relapse-initiating leukemic stem cells”
Terje Dokland, Ph.D.
Professor in the Department of Microbiology
Title: “The streptococcal ribosomal protease Prp as a novel antibiotic target”