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New grants awarded to faculty and residents

The following grants were awarded between June 1, 2021 to December 1, 2021.

Faculty

Gabriel Haller, PHD – NIH R21

  • Massively-parallel functional interrogation of genetic variation in LGMD-associated sarcoglycan genes
  • 7/1/2021-6/30/2023 – $207,900

Ananth K. Vellimana, MD 

  • Academy Emerging Investigator Program
  • 2022-2024

Residents

Jacob Greenberg, MD – WUSTL Big Ideas

  • Using Mobile Health Technology to Capture Physical, Functional and Psychosocial Features that Predict Recovery after Lumbar Fusion
  • 7/1/2021-6/30/2022 – $50,000

Jacob Greenberg, MD – Scoliosis Research Society

  • Using ecological momentary assessment and digital phenotyping to create personalized disease profiles for adult spinal deformity
  • 7/1/2021-6/30/2022 – $10,000

Rowland Han, MD  –  American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship

  • Diffusion Imaging Methods for Detection of Treatment Effect versus Tumor progression in Glioblastoma
  • 1/1/2022 -12/31/2023 – $119,500