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Grant News for Academic Year 2019-2020

Dana Mordue   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    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 LeeZhongtao Zhang   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 Mordue Gary Wormser  

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.”

     
Marina K. Holz, Ph.D.   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   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." 
     
Wang Penghua   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   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 Fallon   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."