Grant News for Academic Year 2019-2020
Dana G. Mordue, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Secretary of the NYMC Faculty Senate reports NYMC in Valhalla has been awarded a grant of $594,269 from the National Institutes of Health S10 Instrumentation Program. The money will go toward the purchase of a high-resolution confocal microscope for the college to use in its biomedical research. | ||
Doris J. Bucher, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology and immunology, received a $956,604 grant from the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations. | ||
Mitchell S. Cairo, M.D., professor of pediatrics, medicine, pathology, microbiology and immunology and cell biology and anatomy and co-chief of hematology, will serve as PI for a $504,183 grant from Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for a "Pilot Study to Determine the Safety of Defibrotide in Children with High Risk Kawasaki Disease." | ||
Xiang Dong, M.D., clinical associate professor of surgery, has been awarded a $303,924 grant from The MT Group, Inc. for "Translational Medicine: Discovery and Evaluation of Biomarkers/Pharmacogenomics for the Diagnosis and Personalized Management of Patients." | ||
Jonathan A.N. Fisher, Ph.D., assistant professor of physiology, received a four-year $352,239 grant from the National Institutes of Health for his work, "Neural Mechanisms of Ultrasound-induced Enhancement of Sensory Acuity." | ||
Chandra Shekhar Bakshi, D.V.M., Ph.D., assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, received a two-year $445,834 grant for "Advancement of a Mucosal Subunit Vaccine in an Outbred Model of Respiratory Tularemia" from the National Institutes of Health. | ||
Marietta Lee, Ph.D., top, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, and Zhongtao Zhang, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, received a one-year grant continuation in the amount of $262,250 for "Modification of DNA Polymerase Delta by a Novel Mechanism During Replication Stress" from the National Institutes of Health. | ||
Grant News for Academic Year 2018-2019
Dana G. Mordue, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology and immunology, and co-investigator Gary P. Wormser, M.D., professor of medicine and chief of Division of Infectious Diseases, received a two-year $246,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation Research (DAIT) for “Tafenoquine as a Potential Revolutionary Treatment for Babesiosis.” |
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Marina K. Holz, Ph.D., dean of the Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences, was awarded a five-year $2,050,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for "Estrogenic signaling upstream and downstream of mTOR." | ||
Daohong Lin, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology, received a four-year grant totaling $1,476,000 from the National Institutes of Health for "Kir5.1 Regulates Kir4.1 Ubiquitination by Nedd4-2 in DCT." | ||
Penghua Wang, Ph.D., assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, received a four-year grant totaling $2,016,175 from the National Institutes of Health for "The Role of UBXNs in Antiviral Immunity." | ||
Igor Laskowski, M.D., assistant professor of surgery, received a two-year grant totaling $134,335 grant from Health Core, Inc. for "Trial to Compare Best Endovascular versus Best Surgical Therapy in Patients with Critical Limb Ischemia (BEST)." | ||
John T. Fallon III, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chairman of the Department of Pathology and professor of medicine, received a three-year grant totaling $204,321 from Philips Health Care for "Gene Expression of Mononuclear Cells Treated with Anti PD-1 Monoclonal Antibodies." | ||