| Investigator | Co-Investigators | Sponsor | Type | Project Title | Begin Date | End Date | Awarded Dollars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Namita Agrawal | Indiana University Health | New | Assessing the Feasibility of Implementing a Collaborative, Coordinated, and Multidisciplinary Initiative between Radiation Oncology and Pelvic Health Physical Therapy: A Pilot Study | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2024 | $99,554 | |
| Kavitha Anbarasu | Sigma Xi, The Scientific Res Society | New | TBK1 as a therapeutic target for Retinal Ganglion Cell neuroprotection in opticneuropathies. | 6/15/2022 | 6/14/2023 | $2,500 | |
| Anita Bellail | National Cancer Institute | New | Targeting SUMO1 degradation for advanced colon cancer therapy | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $369,353 | |
| Michelle L Block | National Institute On Aging | New | The Role of Peripheral Immune Cell Trafficking in Ozone-Induced Alzheimer's Disease Neuropathology | 6/1/2022 | 5/30/2025 | $1,735,512 | |
| Alain Bopda Waffo | National Science Foundation | New | RNA phage Q Beta displayed SARS-CoV-2 epitopes fused with Nanotag as a biosensor toolkit | 8/1/2022 | 7/31/2025 | $400,000 | |
| Scott Glen Canfield | Grace M. Showalter Trust | New | Blood-Brain Barrier Breakdown in Alzheimer's Disease | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $75,000 | |
| Jimmy Carlucci | National Institute Of Child Health, Human Devl. | New | Developing an enhanced Mentor Mother strategy to improve prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) outcomes | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $155,956 | |
| D Wade Clapp | Riley Children's Foundation | New | Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy- Gene Therapy | 4/1/2022 | 3/31/2023 | $50,000 | |
| Andrea Conroy | National Institute Allergy & Infectious Diseases | New | Malaria associated pathogenesis of chronic kidney disease (MAP-CKD) | 6/24/2022 | 5/31/2023 | $644,039 | |
| Evan M. Cornett | Grace M. Showalter Trust | New | Regulation of neuronal differentiation by lysine methylation | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $75,000 | |
| Erika L Daley | Ann & Robert H Lurie Children Hospital Of Chi | New | IMPACCT: Infrastructure for Musculoskeletal Pediatric Acute Care Clinical Trials | 9/1/2021 | 8/31/2022 | $4,605 | |
| Alexander L Dent | National Institute Allergy & Infectious Diseases | New | Control of ST2+ Treg Development in Allergic Disease by Bcl6 and Sex Hormone Receptors | 6/2/2022 | 5/31/2023 | $198,125 | |
| Rohan Dharmakumar | National Heart, Lung And Blood Institute | New | Mechanistic Insights to A Translatable Therapy for Acute Reperfused Hemorrhagic Myocardial Infarctions | 3/1/2022 | 2/28/2023 | $785,920 | |
| X Charlie Dong | National Institute On Aging | New | Role of SIRT6 in the pancreatic beta cell aging | 6/15/2022 | 2/28/2023 | $237,750 | |
| Georges Ephrem | Indiana University Health | New | Sacubitril/Valsartan Outcomes in Adult Congenital Heart Disease Patients. | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2025 | $150,000 | |
| Carmella Evans-Molina | Endocrine Fellows Foundation | New | Incidence of diabetes in transgender patients | 6/1/2022 | 5/31/2023 | $7,500 | |
| Jill C Fehrenbacher | National Institute On Aging | New | The Role of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide in rapidly progressive osteoarthritis induced by anti-nerve growth factor | 6/1/2022 | 3/31/2023 | $237,750 | |
| Jonathan Nicholas Flak | Grace M. Showalter Trust | New | Identifying novel CNS mechanisms that stimulate energy expenditure | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $75,000 | |
| Tatiana M Foroud | University Of Wisconsin | New | Unraveling the earliest phases of vascular cognitive impairment and dementia using CADASIL--a monogenic form of small vessel cerebrovascular disease | 2/1/2022 | 8/31/2022 | $125,323 | |
| Tatiana M Foroud | University Of Pittsburgh | New | Arterial Stiffness, Cognition, and Equol (ACE) | 2/15/2022 | 1/31/2023 | $53,578 | |
| Tatiana M Foroud | University Of South Florida | New | Cognitive training to reduce incidence of cognitive impairment in older adults | 2/1/2022 | 1/31/2023 | $669,596 | |
| Catia Gomes | Brightfocus Foundation | New | The role of reactive astrocyte-associated complement C3 in glaucomatous neurodegeneration | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2024 | $150,000 | |
| Brett H Graham | National Institute Neurological Disorders & Stroke | New | Determination of pathogenetic mechanisms in cortex-specific Sucla2 deficiency as a model for mitochondrial encephalopathy | 6/1/2022 | 5/31/2023 | $517,067 | |
| Dustin Hammers | Alzheimer Association | New | Behavioral Interventions for the Treatment of Early Onset AD | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2025 | $149,998 | |
| Eri Hashino | National Institute On Deafness And Other Comm. Dis | New | Engineering High-Fidelity Human Cochlear Organoids | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $672,435 | |
| Tom Hummer | National Institute Of Mental Health | New | Psychological and neural mechanisms of social-cognitive deficits in ADHD | 7/1/2022 | 5/31/2023 | $237,750 | |
| Babar Ali Khan | Grace M. Showalter Trust | New | Showalter Scholar - Babar Khan | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $25,000 | |
| Melissa Ko | Indiana University Health | New | Neurological Access and APP Training Via a Synchronous TeleNeurology Response (NAAVSTR): A Pilot Study to Improve APP Training in Urgent Neurological Care | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2024 | $100,000 | |
| Konstantina Kyritsi | American Association For The Study Of Liver Diseases | New | The therapeutic role of neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist in primary sclerosing cholangitis | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $50,000 | |
| Kenneth Lim | Asn Foundation For Kidney Research | New | Translating biological discoveries in Klotho into a therapeutic strategy for CKD-associated cardiac fibrosis | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2024 | $185,780 | |
| Debra K Litzelman | Indiana University Health | Renewal (not prev committed) | WeCare IU Health | 7/1/2022 | 12/31/2022 | $101,686 | |
| Jessica Maiers | Grace M. Showalter Trust | New | ER-associated Degradation Drives Liver Fibrosis | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $75,000 | |
| Jessica Maiers | National Institute Of Diabetes, Digestive & Kidney | New | Elucidating the role of ATF6¿ as a critical pro-fibrogenic transcription factor in Hepatic Stellate Cells | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $118,875 | |
| Troy A Markel | University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill | New | Neonatal gut-on-a-chip platform for high content drug testing and precision medicine | 4/1/2022 | 8/31/2022 | $22,756 | |
| Jonathan Alexander Mayhew | Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Foundation | New | The role of neutrophil extracellular traps in severe malaria morbidity and mortality | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $50,000 | |
| Alexandria Dailey McDow | Indiana University Health | New | Randomized Controlled Trial of Preoperative Corticosteroids in Autoimmune Thyroid Disease | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2025 | $148,868 | |
| Rebecca McNally Keehn | Mary R. Ciccarelli | Riley Children's Foundation | New | Haddad Early Autism Evaluation and Biomarker Projects | 4/1/2022 | 3/31/2024 | $400,000 |
| Jason Meyer | Brightfocus Foundation | New | Exploring the role of the APBB2 risk variant in glaucoma with human induced pluripotent stem cells | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2024 | $200,000 | |
| Nuria Morral | National Institute Of Diabetes, Digestive & Kidney | New | Transcription cycle regulation by nutrients | 7/15/2022 | 4/30/2023 | $344,338 | |
| Miguel Moutinho | Brightfocus Foundation | New | Can the niacin receptor HCAR2 modulate microglia to limit the progression of Alzheimer's disease? | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2024 | $200,000 | |
| Samisubbu R Naidu | Grace M. Showalter Trust | New | Non-canonical activation of SREBP1 in cardiovascular pathologies | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $75,000 | |
| Kwangsik Nho | Grace M. Showalter Trust | New | Showalter Scholar - Kwangsik Nho | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $25,000 | |
| Mateusz Opyrchal | Washington University | New | National Comprehensive Cancer Network/NCCN | 1/1/2022 | 8/31/2022 | $7,715 | |
| Adeoti Efundademu Oshinowo | Steven Dean Mong; E. Matthew Ritter | Indiana University Health | New | Multidisciplinary Proficiency Based Robotics Curriculum for Surgical Trainees, Surgeons, and Operating Room Teams | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2024 | $98,193 |
| Sara Kay Quinney | Grace M. Showalter Trust | New | Showalter Scholar - Sara Quinney | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $25,000 | |
| Steven D Rhodes | National Institute Neurological Disorders & Stroke | New | T cells in neurofibroma pathogenesis and malignant transformation | 6/1/2022 | 5/31/2023 | $184,256 | |
| Christopher Michael Robinson | National Institute Allergy & Infectious Diseases | New | Bacterial-mediated enhancement of Coxsackievirus | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $476,554 | |
| Courtney Marie Rowan | Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia | New | Assessment of MODS and Personalized Exposures of Antibiotics | 9/22/2021 | 8/31/2022 | $7,323 | |
| Huda Salman | U.s. Food And Drug Administration | New | CD4 Redirected Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy for CD4 Positive T Cell Neoplasms | 10/17/2021 | 7/31/2022 | $526,876 | |
| Reza Shahbazi | Grace M. Showalter Trust | New | Elucidating the role of exosomal communication in cancer bone metastasis for developing potent targeted therapeutics | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $75,000 | |
| Elizabeth A Sierra Potchanant | Grace M. Showalter Trust | New | Targeting PLK1 as a novel synthetic lethality strategy for acute myeloidleukemias with Fanconi anemia pathway mutations | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $75,000 | |
| Emily K Sims | Riley Children's Foundation | New | Identification of B Cell Dysfunction in Pediatric Patients Post-Cardiac Surgery | 10/1/2020 | 6/30/2023 | $14,995 | |
| Mithun Sinha | National Institute Allergy & Infectious Diseases | New | Novel Biofilm Paradigm Explaining Clinical Implant-Associated Illness. | 5/26/2022 | 4/30/2023 | $231,040 | |
| Laura Margaret Snell | Grace M. Showalter Trust | New | Elucidating Mechanisms of CD4 T Cell Cytotoxicity Following anti-PDL1 Immunotherapy | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $75,000 | |
| Jason Michael Spaeth | National Institute Of Diabetes, Digestive & Kidney | New | The role of Pdx1-recruited Chd4:NuRD complex in controlling mature ß-cell function | 7/1/2022 | 5/31/2023 | $395,820 | |
| Lauren Kathryn Stewart | Grace M. Showalter Trust | New | Pilot study of home-based walking program after acute pulmonary embolism in patients with metabolic syndrome risk factors | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $50,000 | |
| William J. Sullivan | Grace M. Showalter Trust | Renewal (not prev committed) | Disrupting RNA modification as a novel treatment for parasitic infection | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $60,000 | |
| Jignesh Tailor | Cure Childhood Cancer Inc. | New | Discovery of synthetic lethal targets in MYCN neuroepithelial stem cells | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $139,978 | |
| Temel Tirkes | Pennsylvania State University | New | Data Coordinating Center for the Type 1 Diabetes in Acute Pancreatitis Consortium (T1DAPC) | 8/1/2021 | 7/31/2022 | $321,958 | |
| Ngoc Tung Tran | Grace M. Showalter Trust | New | Homology-Independent Targeted Integration mediated gene therapy for Fanconi Anemia group C | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $75,000 | |
| Tuan M Tran | Oregon Health & Science University | New | Integrating human and non-human primate data to understand the acquisition of pre-erythrocytic immunity in the face of previous malaria exposure | 2/10/2022 | 1/31/2023 | $90,076 | |
| William A Truitt | Philip L Johnson | National Institute Of Mental Health | New | Mechanisms of Serotonin Modulation of Panic | 1/1/2022 | 12/31/2022 | $50,467 |
| Claire E Walczak | National Institute Of General Medical Sciences | Renewal (not prev committed) | Mechanisms of Mitotic Fidelity | 8/1/2022 | 7/31/2023 | $444,582 | |
| Jun Wan | Purdue University | New | PRMT5/MEP50 as a critical epigenetic regulator and therapeutic target for therapy-induced neuroendocrine prostate cancer | 6/1/2022 | 5/31/2025 | $40,104 | |
| Bree Ashley Weaver | Health And Hospital Corporation Of Marion County | Renewal (not prev committed) | Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center (MATEC) Program | 1/1/2022 | 6/30/2022 | $6,519 | |
| Elizabeth Weinstein | Indiana Department Of Health | New | Trauma and Injury Prevention | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2024 | $81,607 | |
| Ronald C. Wek | Grace M. Showalter Trust | Renewal (not prev committed) | Translation and Stress Regulatory Pathways in Health and Disease | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $60,000 | |
| Fletcher A White | Foundation For Anesthesia Education And Research | New | Medical Student Anesthesia Research Fellowship Program | 5/30/2022 | 7/25/2022 | $4,200 | |
| Lei Yang | National Heart, Lung And Blood Institute | New | Deciphering a Novel LncRNA-mediated Lipid Droplet Transport System in Human Heart | 8/1/2022 | 7/31/2023 | $541,523 | |
| Xue Yuan | Grace M. Showalter Trust | New | Junctional epithelial stem cells as a therapeutic target for periodontal disease | 7/1/2022 | 6/30/2023 | $75,000 |
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