Beech | Dr. Bettina Beech, dean of the John D. Bower School of Population Health, received a seven-year, up to $7 million grant ($850,869 for Year One) from the National Institutes of Health for the “Jackson Heart Study Training and Educational Center.” |
Darsey | Dr. Damon Darsey, associate professor of emergency medicine, received a $1,999,998 grant from the Department of Homeland Security for the “Rural Emergency Medical Communications Demonstration Project.” |
Garrett | Dr. Michael Garrett, professor of pharmacology and toxicology, received a four-year, $1,550,000 grant ($387,500 for Year One) from the NIH for the project, “Genetic Targets of Hypertension End Organ Damage.” |
Wallace | Dr. Kedra Wallace, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, received a two-year, $640,000 grant ($320,000 for Year One) from the NIH for the project, “Hypertension and Neuroinflammation During Pregnancy: The Impact on Maternal Behavior and Offspring Neurodevelopment.” |
Mo | Dr. Yin-Yuan Mo, professor of pharmacology and toxicology, received a $620,000 grant from the Department of Defense for the project, “Identification of lncRNAs Required for Synthetic Lethal Interactions with Mutant KRAS in Pancreatic Cancer.” |
Hobbs | Dr. Charlotte Hobbs, associate professor of pediatrics, received a $528,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the project, “Determination of Prevalence of the Soil-transmitted Helminth Hookworm, Ancylostoma Duodenale, Necator Americanus, and Related Diseases of Poverty in High-risk Counties in Mississippi.” |
Alexander | Dr. Barbara Alexander, professor of physiology and biophysics, received a $299,999 grant from the NIH for the project, “Hypertension in Adult IUGR Offspring: Beneficial Effects of Perinatal Intervention.” |
Mena | Dr. Leandro Mena, professor and chair of population health science, received a $72,154 subcontract from the NIH and Rhode Island Hospital for the project, “Telemedicine for PrEP Throughout Mississippi (Tele-PrEP-MS)” and a $72,058 subcontract from the NIH and Brown University for the project, “Mobile Health Platform for Providing Real-time Follow-up After Home-based HIV Self-testing for High-risk Men Who Have Sex with Men.” |
Butler | Dr. Kenneth Butler, professor of medicine, received a $132,433 subcontract from the NIH and the University of Michigan for the project, “A Social Epigenomic Approach to Health Disparities in Cardiovascular Risk Factors.” |
Majure | Dr. Joseph Majure, professor of pediatrics, received a $130,000 subcontract from the NIH and Duke University for the project, “Pharmacokinetics of Understudied Drugs Administered to Children per Standard of Care.” |
Suzuki | Dr. Takeki Suzuki, assistant professor of medicine, received an $86,008 subcontract from the NIH and Mayo Clinic for the project, “Shared Decision-making for Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation (SDM4Afib).” |
Dixit | Dr. Mehul Dixit, professor of pediatrics, received a $61,000 subcontract from the Rhode Island Hospital for the project, “ACTHAR for the Management of Treatment-resistant Nephrotic Syndrome in Children: A Pilot Study.” |
Momah | Dr. Tobe Momah, assistant professor of family medicine, received a $59,552 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration and Carolinas Medical Center for the project, “Education and Mentoring to Bring Access to Care for SCD (EMBRACE-SCD).” |
Annett | Dr. Robert Annett, professor of pediatrics, received a $50,000 grant from the Simons Foundation for the project, “Reducing Disparities in SPARK Study Participation.” |