Proposals funded: Alqahtani, Messier, Yazdani
Congratulations to Sarra Alqahtani, assistant professor of computer science, whose proposal entitled “CRII-IIS: Secure Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Algorithms” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
Congratulations to Stephen Messier, professor of health and exercise science and director of the J.B. Snow Biomechanics Laboratory, whose proposal entitled “Preventing Incident Knee Osteoarthritis: The Osteoarthritis Prevention Study (TOPS)” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Congratulations to Saami Yazdani, associate professor of engineering, whose proposal entitled “Ex Vivo Testing Assessment of Varying Drug Coated Balloon Coating” has been funded by Advanced NanoTherapies, Inc.
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Proposals funded: Anderson, Muday and Pease, Yazdani
Congratulations to Paul Anderson, professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Studies relating to black hole evaporation and to the validity of the semiclassical approximation in cosmology” has been funded by the National Science Foundation.
Congratulations to Gloria Muday, professor of biology and director of the Center for Molecular Signaling, and James Pease, assistant professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “RESEARCH-PGR: Genomic analysis of heat stress during tomato pollination” has been funded by the National Science Foundation and by (subaward/subcontract from) Brown University.
Congratulations to Saami Yazdani, associate professor of engineering, whose proposal entitled “Local delivery of smooth muscle cell targeted aptamer to inhibit neointimal growth and accelerate vascular healing” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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Proposals funded: Anderson, Donati, Yazdani, Rejeski
Congratulations to T. Michael Anderson, associate professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “US-UK Collab: Transport and trophic effects of transient hosts on infectious disease” has been funded by the United States Department of Agriculture and by (subaward/subcontract from) the University of Georgia.
Congratulations to George Donati, associate research professor of chemistry, whose proposal entitled “Copper is a Host Effector in Protection Against Urinary Tract Infection” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract from) Texas A&M University.
Congratulations to Saami Yazdani, associate professor of engineering, whose proposal entitled “Acute Benchtop Assessments of Varying Drug Coated Balloon Technology” has been funded by the Biosensors International/ Research USA.
Congratulations to Jack Rejeski, research professor of health and exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Promote weight loss in obese PAD patients to prevent mobility loss: The PROVE trial” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract from) Northwestern University.
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Proposals funded: Muday, Yazdani, Comstock-Ferguson
Congratulations to Gloria Muday, professor of biology, whose proposal entitled “Ethylene 2020: XII International Symposium on the Plant Hormone Ethylene” has been funded by the United States Department of Agriculture.
Congratulations to Saami Yazdani, associate professor of engineering, whose proposal entitled “Local delivery of smooth muscle cell targeted aptamer to inhibit neointimal growth and accelerate vascular healing” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Congratulations to Lindsay Comstock-Ferguson, associate professor of chemistry, whose proposal entitled “RNA modification and antibiotic resistance” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and by (subaward/subcontract from) Emory University.
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