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New Grants and Awards

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The following grants and awards were given to our faculty, residents and postdoctoral fellows between April-September 2022.

Faculty

Nitin Agarwal, MD

Chuck Noll Foundation for Brain Injury Research

  • “Identifying Occult Traumatic Brain Injury in Professional Athletes Using a Novel Non-Invasive Biomarker”
  • 8/1/22 – 8/1/23 – $125,000

2022-23 NREF & Academy of Neurological Surgeons Young Clinician Investigator Award

  • “Predicting Spinal Cord Injury Prognosis Using a Novel Non-Invasive Biomarker”
  • 7/1/22 – 6/30/23 – $40,000

McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience

  • “Predicting Spinal Cord Injury Prognosis Using a Novel Non-Invasive Biomarker”
  • 7/1/22 – 6/30/23 – $40,000

Peter Brunner, PhD

NIH U01 – Mayo MPI award

  • “An Ecosystem of Technology and Protocols for Adaptive Neuromodulation Research in Humans”
  • 9/21/22 – 8/31/26 – $4,753,816

Gabe Haller, PhD

Children’s Discovery Institute

  • “High-throughput Functional Assessment of Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy-associated Sarcoglycan Genes”
  • 7/1/22 – 6/30/25 – $450,000

Albert Kim, MD, PhD

NIH R01

  • “Mechanisms of SOX2 Regulation in Glioblastoma”
  • 8/15/22 – 7/31/27 -$1,924,493

David Limbrick, MD, PhD

NIH R01

  • “Effects of ventricular volume and cerebral connectivity on neurological outcomes in preterm intraventricular hemorrhage”
  • 3/1/22 – 1/31/27 -$3,097,940

James (Pat) P. McAllister, PhD

NIH R01

  • “Experimental Studies of Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy and Choroid Plexus Cauterization in Hydrocephalus”
  • 9/27/22 – 8/31/27 – $3,067,876

Camilo Molina, MD and Eric Leuthardt, MD

WUSM Big Ideas

  • “Evaluation and Validation of a Mobile Application for Patient Functional Assessment in Spinal Surgery”
  • 7/1/22 – 6/30/23 – $50,000

Brenton Pennicooke, MD, MS

Barnes-Jewish Foundation

  • “Markerless 3-D Motion Capture and Muscle Bioelectric Signals to Predict Outcomes in Cervical Myelopathy”
  • 7/1/22 – 6/30/23 – $60,000

Ismael Seáñez, PhD

NIH K01

  • “Neural plasticity by spinal cord stimulation and training in people with spinal cord injury”
  • 9/1/22 – 8/31/25 – $600,000

Alex Stegh, PhD

NIH R01

  • “Inhibition of wild-type IDH1 as a ferroptosis-inducing therapeutic approach for the treatment of malignant glioma”
  • 9/1/22 – 6/30/27 – $2,455,394

NIH R01

  • “Spherical Nucleic Acid nano-architectures as first-in-class cGAS agonists for the immunotherapeutic treatment of Glioblastoma”
  • 9/23/22 – 8/31/27 – $2,288,794

Jon T. Willie, MD

American Epilepsy Society Seed Grant

  • “Novel Biomarkers to Improve Centromedian Nucleus of Thalamus Stimulation”
  • 6/30/22-6/30/23 – $20,000


Residents

Diane Aum, MD

2022-23 NREF & Henry G. Schwartz Research Fellowship Grant

  • “Determinants of Cognitive Outcome Through Functional Resting State and White Matter Connectivity in Pediatric Patients with Posterior Fossa Tumors”
  • 7/1/22 – 6/30/23 – $50,000

Anja Srienc, MD, PhD

NIH F32

  • “Diffuse Optical Tomography for Identifying Early Complications of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage”
  • 1/15/23 – 1/14/25 – $157,208

PostDoc Fellow

Tao Xie, PhD

McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience

  • “Dynamics and Causal Functions of Amygdala-Mediated Fear Extinction Learning and Recall in Humans”
  • 7/1/22 – 6/30/24 – $100,000