Congratulations to the following individuals for obtaining extramural funding from federal, state, and/or independent sources between November 1, 2020 - January 31, 2021!
NOTE: If any information has been inadvertently omitted, please contact the editor (dflock@lsuhsc.edu) and a correction will be printed in the next issue of The Pulse.
National Institutes of Health (R01):
- Rajani Maiya, PhD (Department of Physiology), “Role of the Transcriptional Regulator Lmo4 in Alcohol Consumption and Reward”
- Rinku Majumder, PhD (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) “A Mechanistic Study to Elucidate the Role of Protein S in Elevating the Risk of Thrombosis in Obese, Pre-menopausal Women”
National Institutes of Health (R21):
- Haydee Bazan, PhD (Neuroscience Center of Excellence), “A Novel Approach to Restore Sight after Corneal Chemical Injury”
National Institutes of Health/NHLBI OT2: Operation Warp Speed:
- Matthew Lammi, MD (Department of Medicine/Section of Pulmonary/Critical Care and Allergy/Immunology), “A Multicenter, Adaptive, Randomized Controlled Platform Trial of the Safety and Efficacy of Antithrombotic Strategies in Hospitals Adults with COVID-19”
US Department of Defense:
- Giulia Monticone, PhD (Department of Genetics), “Targeting the Host Immune Response in COVID-19 via Adenosine-Mediated Immunomodulation”
- Qiang Shen, MD, PhD (Department of Genetics), “Drug Discovery of BAX Activators for the Treatment of Breast Cancer”
Foundations and National Associations:
- John England, MD (Department of Neurology), American Academy of Neurology, "Could the SARS-COV-2 Virus be Triggering or Worsening Small Fiber Neuropathy?"
- John England, MD (Department of Neurology), Children's Hospital, Neurology Clinical Trials
Pharmaceutical and Company Grants:
- Charles Nichols, PhD (Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics), Lophora ApS, “Lophora Testing 5-HT2A Agonists for Antidepressant-like Activity”
- Gabriel Tender, MD (Department of Neurosurgery), Globus Medical, Globus eNeurosurgery 2020
- Gabriel Tender, MD (Department of Neurosurgery), Armamentarium, Armamentarium eNeurosurgery 2021