2017
Bridge Grants
Chu Chen, PhD.
"Endocannabinoid Metabolism and Synaptic Function"
Si-Qiong June Liu, PhD.
“Psychological Stress Reduces Endocannabinoid tone: Mechanisms and Possible Treatments"
Scott Edwards, PhD.
"Central Neuropharmacological Mechanisms of Pain and Alcohol Dependence"
Minghao Jin, PhD.
"RPE Apical Proteins that Regulate the Visual Cycle"
New Project
Suresh Alahari, PhD.
"Preparation of CRISPR-Cas9 Conditional Nischarin Knockout Mice to Study the Role of Nischarin in Breast Cancer"
Clinical Research Grants
Raegan Gupta, MD, and Christopher Taylor, PhD.
"The NICU Microbiome and Gastrointestinal Bacterial Colonization in the Hospitalized Premature Infant: Effect of Antibiotics"
Danielle Gottlieb Sen, MD.
"The CHILDHeart Registry: Building an Understanding of Congenital Heart Disease in Louisiana"
Resident Research Grants
Tiffany Wesley, MD, and Angela Johnson, MD.
"MyPlate Educational Intervention"
Keonho Kong, MD, and Michael Dunham, MD.
"Identification of Endoscopic Laryngeal Lesions Using Computer Vision with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)"