2018 Seed Funding Awards

Ali Guler, PhD 

A Novel Anti-Obesity Target: Dopamine Signaling in the Central Circadian Pacemaker

Ali Guler, PhD - Department of Biology; Michael Scott, PhD - Department of Pharmacology

 

C. Daniel Meliza, PhD

A Novel Model for Dyslexia and Other Language-Processing Disorders

C. Daniel Meliza, PhD - Department of Psychology; Christopher Deppmann, PhD - Department of Biology; Mark Beenhakker, PhD - Department of Pharmacology

 

Joshua Easter, MD

Concussion Induced Inflammation: A Clinical and Mechanistic Study

Joshua Easter, MD - Department of Emergency Medicine; Donna Broshek, PhD - Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences; Howard Goodkin, MD, PhD - Department of Neurology; John Lukens, PhD - Department of Neuroscience; Kiel Neumann, PhD - Department of Radiology & Medical Imaging; Matthew Panzer, PhD - Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering; Jacob Resch, PhD - Department of Kinesiology; James Stone, MD, PhD - Department of Radiology & Medical Imaging

 

Benjamin Purow, MD 

Cross-linking Antibody Tetramers (CATS) to Localize and Activate Immune Cell Subsets for Cancer Therapy

Benjamin Purow, MD - Department of Neurology (Neuro-Oncology); Tajie Harris, PhD - Department of Neuroscience

 

Sarah Kucenas, PhD

Facilitating Axon Regeneration by Boosting Glial-Mediated Phagocytosis

Sarah Kucenas, PhD - Department of Biology; Kodi Ravichandran, PhD - Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Cancer Biology

 

James Morris, PhD

Individual Variability in the Oxytocinergic System and the Development of Human Sociality

James Morris, PhD - Department of Psychology; Angeline Lillard, PhD - Department of Psychology; Jessica Connelly, PhD - Department of Psychology

 

Bijoy Kundu, PhD

Investigation of Recurrent Brain Cancer Using Dynamic FDG-PET Imaging

Bijoy Kundu, PhD - Department of Radiology & Medical Imaging; David Schiff, MD - Department of Neurology (Neuro-Oncology); Patrice Rehm, MD - Department of Radiology & Medical Imaging; Thomas Muttikkal, MD - Department of Radiology & Medical Imaging

 

Julius Zhu, PhD

Genetically Encoded Dopamine Sensors

Julius Zhu, PhD - Department of Pharmacology; Wendy Lynch, PhD - Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences

 

Nassima Ait-Daoud Tiouririne, MD

Optimizing Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder Using Targeted Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation 

Nassima Ait-Daoud Tiouririne, MD; David Hamilton, MD; Amit Shane, PhD; Karen Ingersoll, PhD - Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences

 

William Petri, MD, PhD

Role of Epigenetics on Early Child Development in Bangladesh

William Petri, MD, PhD - Department of Medicine (Infectious Disease); David Auble, PhD - Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics 

 

Anindya Dutta, PhD

Short Non-coding RNAs in Autism-Related Disorders

Anindya Dutta, PhD - Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics; John Lukens, PhD - Department of Neuroscience