Grants

Sarah Arias, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received $165,987 for “Structuring Appropriate and Feasible Evaluations of Risk (SAFER)” from the National Institutes of Mental Health.

Jeffrey A. Bailey, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PLM), and Karamoko Niare, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, received $448,526 for “Investigating a positively-selected chromosome 7 haplotype associated with decreased susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum to artemisinin and lumefantrine in Africa” from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. 

Cynthia L. Battle, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received $661,726 for “Development of a Lifestyle Physical Activity Intervention to Reduce Risk for Perinatal Alcohol Use” from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Madeline Benz, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received $40,000 for “Development of Preventing Overdose - Safety Training,” a pilot project award from the RI Center for Biomedical Research Excellence on Opioids and Overdose.

Marie Camerota and Barry Lester, multi-PIs, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received $4,451,801 for “Adolescent Outcomes in Infants Born Very Preterm: An Exposome Approach,” an R01 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Sergej Djuranovic, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry (MCB), received $165,000 for “Post-transcriptional regulation of cell identity” from the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation. 

Justin R. Fallon, Neuroscience, received $112,302 for “Development of an antibody therapeutic to activate muscle stem cells” from the Association Française contre les Myopathies. 

Fabian Fischer, PLM, received $62,365 for “The role of albumin and other serum factors in Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) accumulation and toxicity” a subaward through the University of Rhode Island, from the National Institute of Environmental Health Science. 

Andrew Karam, graduate student, and mentor Sendurai Mani, PLM, received $150,342 for “NK cell-mediated targeting of cancer cells that have undergone the epithelial to mesenchymal transition to overcome metastasis in pancreatic cancer” from the National Cancer Institute. 

Adam Levine, Emergency Medicine, received $18,907 for “Phage Predation as a Determinant of Diarrheal Disease Severity and Antimicrobial Resistance Evolution,” a subaward through the University of Florida from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. 

Jessica S. Plavicki, PLM, and Sean Lawler, PLM, received $75,000 for “Pilot: Advancing preclinical BBB models to facilitate drug delivery in glioblastoma,” a subaward through the Ocean State Research Institute from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. 

Jennifer Primack, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received $180,098 for “A Pilot Study to Examine Acceptability and Feasibility of Growth, Resilience, Insight, and Togetherness (GRIT), a Retreat-Based Program for Violence-Exposed Women Veterans” from the VA Office of Research and Development.

Ana Rabasco, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received $781,566 for “A Suicide Intervention for Youth with First-Episode Psychosis” from NIMH.

Sharon I. Rounds, Medicine, and Methodius Tuuli, Obstetrics and Gynecology, received $26,519,171 for “Advance Clinical and Translational Research (Advance -CTR) Yrs 11-15” from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. 

Molly Split, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received $199,916 for “Optimizing Social Engagement Outcomes in U.S. POINTER” from the Alzheimer’s Association.

Lisa Uebelacker and Lauren Weinstock, Psychiatry and Human Behavior, received $2,097,135 for “Multisite feasibility of yoga to enhance wellbeing in incarcerated adults” from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.

Diana A. Wang, medical student, received $6,180 for “Creative Health & Belonging,” a subaward through the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts.