Honors and Grants

Jennifer Eaton, Obstetrics and Gynecology, was the recipient of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s STAR award. Jennifer was also named associate editor for Fertility & Sterility.

Ramisa Fariha, postdoc in the Brown RNA Center, has been named one of STAT's 2024 Wunderkinds. She was recognized for her work advancing the use of liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry.

Meghan C. Riddle, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received the Psychiatry Research Teaching and Mentoring Award from the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior.

Jeffrey A. Bailey, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, received $76,666 for “Data and analysis ecosystem for eukaryotic pathogen targeted sequencing.” The grant is a subaward through the University of California, San Francisco from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Peter A. Belenky, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology (MMI), received $431,448 for “Alleviating antibiotic-induced gut dysbiosis by restoring small intestinal bile acid metabolism” from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.

Nicolas L. Fawzi, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry (MCB), received $60,004 for “Residue-by-residue details of FUS protein phase separation and aggregation” from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences        

Bess Frost, MCB, received $43,557 for “Nanopore Long-Read Sequencing analyses of retrotransposons in brains of patients with progressive supranuclear palsy” from the Rainwater Charitable Foundation. She also received $154,500 for “Tau-induced production of viral-like particles as a consequence of retrotransposon activation” from the Rainwater Charitable Foundation. She also received $152,716 for “Mechanisms of tau- and aging-induced neurological dysfunction: Focus on the nucleus,” a subaward through the University of Texas Health Science Center from the National Institute on Aging.

Carly Goldstein, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received a $3,393,131 R01 award for “An Application of SMART Methodology to Optimize an Intervention to Maintain Improvements in Health Behaviors in Under-resourced Patients after Phase II Cardiac Rehabilitation” from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. 

Daphne Koinis Mitchell, Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received $3,364,58 for “A Sleep Hygiene Intervention to Improve Sleep Health in Urban, Latino Middle School Children” from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities. 

Jacqueline Nesi, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received a $4.2 million R01 award for “Adolescents’ Social Media Use and Internalizing Symptoms: Mechanisms of Risk and Resilience” from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Sendurai Mani, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, received $58,832 for “Mesenchymal-states associated druggable vulnerabilities in inter- and intra-tumoral heterogeneity of TNBC” from the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation.                      

Phillip Rizzuto, Surgery (Ophthalmology) received a 2024 H. Dunbar Hoskins, Jr MD Center for Quality Eye Care IRIS® Registry Research Fund award, which provides $35,000 for “Socioeconomic Determinants and Risk Factors for Blepharoptosis: A Comprehensive Analysis Using the IRIS Registry” from the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

Anthony Spirito, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received $156,538 for “Adolescents’ Social Media Use and Internalizing Disorders: Mechanisms of Risk and Resilience” from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Lisa Uebelacker and Brandon Gaudiano, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received $1,214,301 for “Development and preliminary testing of a peer narrative video intervention for older adults with chronic pain” from the National Institute of Aging.

Lisa Uebelacker and Shirley Yen, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received $2,027,490 for “Pilot multisite randomized controlled trial of yoga to reduce depression in adolescents” from the National Institute of Complementary and Integrative Health.

Gregorio Valdez, MCB, received $350,000 for “Repurposing Clopidogrel to treat ALS” from the Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust Awards Programs.

Emily Wang, medical student, received $31,726 for “SPOT PVD: Supporting Pediatric Ophthalmic Techniques for Public School Vision Detection in PVD” from the Rhode Island Foundation.