Congratulations to the following individuals for obtaining extramural funding from federal, state, and/or independent sources between February 1 and April 30, 2022!
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/Fogarty International Center:
Charles Wood, PhD (Interdisciplinary Oncology)
“AIDS Malignancies Training and Research International Program ( AMTRIP)”
Charles Wood, PhD (Interdisciplinary Oncology)
“Tanzania AIDS Malignancies Training and Research Program (TAMTRP)”
National Institutes of Health (R21):
Ping Wang, PhD (Pediatrics; Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology)
“Towards a Genome-Wide CRISPR/Cas9 Mutant Library in Rhizopus Delemar”
National Institutes of Health (K01):
Elizabeth Avegno, PhD (Physiology)
“Orexin Modulation of Brain Reward-Brain Stress System Interactions in Alcohol Withdrawal
Anxiety”
National Institutes of Health (P30) (PI-Duke University):
Meredith Clement, MD (Medicine/Infectious Diseases)
“Preparing for Implementation of Strategies to Promote Uptake of Long-acting Injectable
PrEP among Black Same Gender Loving Men in HBCU Communities”
National Institutes of Health (OTA) (PI-Pennington Biomedical Research Center):
Judd Shellito, MD (Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology)
“To Coordinate a Multi-center Initiative Entitled Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery”
US Department of Defense:
Juan Gao, MD (Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics)
“Identification of New Drug to Treat Polycystic Kidney Disease”
LSU LIFT2 Grants:
Scott Laura, MD (Medicine/Cardiology)
“The Development of a Motorized Device to Apply Rotational Forces on Endovascular
Guidewires and Angioplasty Hardware”
Louisiana Department of Health Bureau Health Service:
Benjamin Springgate, MD, MPH (Medicine/Community and Population Medicine)
“Covid-19 Supporting Resilience for Medicaid Members with Opioid User Disorder”
Pharmaceutical, Professional Society and Private Grants:
Paul LeLorier, MD (Department of Medicine)
Medtronic
Travel Grant