Honors and Grants

Mary Carskadon Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received the Association for Psychological Science’s James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, which recognizes APS members for a lifetime of outstanding contributions to the area of applied psychological research. Among Carskadon’s major contributions to the field has been formally defining sleep. With nearly 3,000 citations, hers is the most widely referenced definition of sleep. She also developed a standard for assessing sleepiness with the Multiple Sleep Latency Test, considered the gold standard for measuring sleepiness.

Ahmed S. Abdelfattah, Neuroscience, received $4,305,787 for “Development of genetically encoded sensors and high-speed FLIM for in vivo quantitative multiplexed voltage imaging” from the National Institute of Mental Health. 

Peter A. Belenky and Amanda Jamieson, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, received $3,043,386 for “Alleviating antibiotic-induced microbiome dysfunction by quenching the microbial redox environment - 2026” from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. 

The Bradley Sleep Center has received a $10.1 million Phase Two COBRE renewal award.

Karthikeyani Chellappa, MMI, received $574,613 for “Hijaking the System: Investigating the Impact Mechanisms of Low Variant Allele Frequency JAK2V617F Clone on the Pathobiology of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms,” a subaward through Rhode Island Hospital from the National Cancer Institute. 

Robbert J. Creton, Molecular, Cellular Biology Biochemistry, received $25,000 for “Increasing IDeA state Biomedical Entrepreneurship via Ecosystem, Enterprises & Experts - UDR0000926,” a subaward through University of Delaware from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

Fabian Fischer received $37,900.41 for “Molecular, cellular and clinical fingerprinting of established pesticide toxicants in three PD cohorts” from Brigham & Women's Hospital: Prime is The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. 

Abebe Almu Fola and Jeffrey Bailey, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, received $449,034 for “Dissecting the Rapid Multifocal Emergence of the Kelch13 441L Artemisinin Resistance Mutation across Southern and Eastern Africa” from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.