School of Medicine

The Pulse - March 2024

Grants and Contracts Awarded This Quarter

Congratulations to the following individuals for obtaining extramural funding from federal, state, and/or independent sources between November 1, 2023 – January 31, 2024!

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

Omeed Moaven, MD (Surgery)
“A Novel Oncolytic Virus for Pancreatic Cancer Immunotherapy”

Rheumatology Section (Subrecipient, in collaboration with Tulane Epidemiology)
“Psychosocial Factors and Lupus Disease Progression among African American Women”

National Institutes of Health – UT2

Michael Dunham, MD (Otolaryngology)
“I-RED Southeast XLerator Network”

National Science Foundation

Fern Tsien, PhD (Genetics); Co-PI Kelly Sherman, PhD (Pharmacology); Arnold Zea, PhD (Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology); Michael Norman, PhD and Martha Cuccia (SOPH)
“GeneBIORETS: Genetics, Genomics and Biology Research Experiences for Teachers in the Sciences”

LA Department of Health and Hospitals

Meredith Clement, MD (Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases) (subrecipient)
“HIV Prevention Activities Health Department Based”

Pharmaceutical, Professional Society and Private Grants

Bennett Deboisblanc, MD (Medicine/Pulmonary/Critical Care & Allergy/Immunology)
Acceleron Pharma Inc.
“A Phase 2, Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled Study to Evaluate the Effects of Sotatercept versus Placebo for the Treatment of Combined Postcapillary and Precapillary Pulmonary Hypertension (Cpc-PH) due to Heart Failure”

Nicholas Harris (Physiology)
American Heart Association
“Predoctoral Fellowship: TRAF3IP as a Proinflammatory Mediator of Alcohol-Related Cardiomyopathy”

Rebecca Lillis, MD (Medicine/Infectious Diseases)
BioFire Diagnostics, LLC
“Pilot Clinical Evaluation of the BioFire Vaginitis Panel DX-SDY-119342”

Michelle Loch, MD (Medicine/Hematology-Oncology)
Personalis, Inc.
“Breast Cancer-Minimal/Molecular Residual Disease Detection and Therapy Monitoring in Patients with Early stage TNBC-Phase I (B-STRONGER)”

Gala True, PhD (Internal Medicine/Community & Population Health)
Southeast Louisiana AHEC
“Firearm Safety”

Jayne S. Weiss, MD (Ophthalmology)
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Foundation
“Creation of a Dry Eye Clinical Service at LSUHNO”

Ashley Wennerstrom, PhD, MPH (Medicine/Section of Community and Population Medicine and Center for Healthcare Value and Equity)
Volunteers of America
“VOA Community Workers”