New Grants FY 2025
October
Texas Department of Family & Protective Services
Title: Building Capacity to Improve Texas Adult Protective Services Financial Exploitation Investigations and Client Services
Principal Investigator: Jason Burnett
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Period of Support: 9/1/2024–2/28/2025
Total Direct Costs: $340,909.00
W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
Title: UTHealth Houston MIST Fellowship
Principal Investigator: Erik B Wilson
Department/Division: Surgery
Period of Support: 8/1/2024–7/31/2025
Total Direct Costs: $25,000.00
John S. Dunn Research Foundation
Title: Exploring excitatory to inhibitory synaptic ratio as a novel target in bipolar disorder and suicide
Principal Investigator: Gabriel Rodrigo Fries
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Period of Support: 9/1/2024–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $49,976.00
Baylor College of Medicine
Title: Novel non-invasive approaches for the neuromodulation of cortical and subcortical targets in Neuropsychiatric disorders
Principal Investigator: Sunil A Sheth
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 12/1/2023–11/30/2024
Total Direct Costs: $14,879.00
KLS Martin Manufacturing LLC
Title: KLS Martin LP 2024-2025 Unrestricted Educational Grant Agreement
Principal Investigator: Matthew R Greives
Department/Division: Surgery
Period of Support: 7/1/2024–6/30/2025
Total Direct Costs: $20,000.00
Baylor College of Medicine
Title: Integrated Genomics of Mucosal Infections
Principal Investigator: Michael Lorenz
Department/Division: Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Period of Support: 5/17/2024–4/30/2025
Total Direct Costs: $201,300.00
American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS)
Title: Foot and Ankle Fellowship FY24/25
Principal Investigator: William C McGarvey
Department/Division: Orthopaedic Surgery
Period of Support: 8/1/2024–7/31/2025
Total Direct Costs: $21,467.00
University of Houston
Title: CAREER: Neuromuscular Coordination (NeuroCoord)-Guided Human-Machine Interaction for Quantifying and Improving Motor Function after Stroke
Principal Investigator: Sheng Li
Department/Division: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Period of Support: 10/14/2024–5/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $5,400.00
Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation
Title: Reach Out and Read
Principal Investigator: Jocelyn M McConnell
Department/Division: Pediatrics
Period of Support: 10/1/2024–9/30/2025
Total Direct Costs: $13,889.00
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute
Title: A prospective, multicenter clinical study of the Implantable Miniature Telescope, Model SING in patients with central vision impairment associated with end-stage age-related macular degeneration
Principal Investigator: Bhavani R Iyer
Department/Division: Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Period of Support: 10/21/2024–10/20/2025
Total Direct Costs: $51,150.00
TIRR Foundation
Title: taVNS Pilot Jerry Johnston Andrew Award for Spinal Cord Injury Research
Principal Investigator: Radha Korupolu
Department/Division: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Period of Support: 10/1/2024–9/30/2025
Total Direct Costs: $10,000.00
Boston Scientific
Title: IC Fellowship Grant 2024-2025
Principal Investigator: Salman A Arain
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Period of Support: 7/1/2024–6/30/2025
Total Direct Costs: $15,000.00
Research Triangle Institute International, LLC
Title: Pharmacotherapies for Alcohol and Substance Use Disorder Research Program Consortium
Principal Investigator: Scott D Lane
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Period of Support: 7/1/2024–6/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $370,692.00
Edwards Lifesciences, LLC
Title: Interventional and Structural Heart Cardiology Fellowship Grant 2024-2025
Principal Investigator: Salman A Arain
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Period of Support: 7/1/2024–6/30/2025
Total Direct Costs: $100,000.00
University of Texas at San Antonio
Title: Development of a behavioral economic Intervention to improve HIV-related behaviors among sexual minority men
Principal Investigator: Jin Ho Yoon
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Period of Support: 9/15/2024–8/31/2027
Total Direct Costs: $65,271.00
September
Icotec Medical Inc.
Title: Evaluation of Biofilm Formation on Carbon Peek and Titanium
Principal Investigator: Catherine G Ambrose
Department/Division: Orthopaedic Surgery
Period of Support: 9/3/2024–9/2/2025
Total Direct Costs: $30,465.00
Gulf Coast Consortia
Title: Systematic identification of enhancer RNAs as biomarkers and therapeutic targets for breast cancer treatment
Principal Investigator: Wenbo Li
Department/Division: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Period of Support: 9/1/2023–8/31/2025
Total Direct Costs: $40,000.00
Episcopal Health Foundation
Title: HOPE: A Cost-Effectiveness Study
Principal Investigator: Logan Rhea Thornton
Department/Division: UTP DSRIP Projects
Period of Support: 10/1/2024–9/30/2025
Total Direct Costs: $379,661.00
National Institute on Aging
Title: Circadian regulation of mitochondrial function by muscle RORs to promote healthy aging
Principal Investigator: Zheng Chen
Department/Division: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Period of Support: 9/15/2024–8/31/2029
Total Direct Costs: $1,646,080.00
National Institutes of Health
Title: Cellular senescence as a potential sex-specific driver of small vessel disease and post-stroke cognitive impairment in late adulthood
Principal Investigator: Rodney Ritzel
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 9/15/2024–5/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $150,000.00
University of Iowa
Title: Women’s Health in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: A Population Based Assessment of Morbidity to Inform Clinical Care
Principal Investigator: Lara A Friel
Department/Division: Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Period of Support: 7/1/2024–6/30/2027
Total Direct Costs: $22,005.00
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Title: Social Isolation, Loneliness and Health Outcomes Amongst Prostate Cancer Survivors
Principal Investigator: Seokhun Kim
Department/Division: Center for Clinical Research and Evidence-Based Medicine
Period of Support: 9/15/2024–9/14/2027
Total Direct Costs: $19,133.00
Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Title: Longitudinal assessment of cryoneurolysis effects on painful spasticity
Principal Investigator: Sheng Li
Department/Division: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Period of Support: 9/12/2024–9/11/2025
Total Direct Costs: $84,930.00
Emory University
Title: Molecular and Network Analyses of Lewy Body Dementia Pathogenesis
Principal Investigator: Sheng Pan
Department/Division: IMM
Period of Support: 9/1/2024–8/31/2025
Total Direct Costs: $115,384.00
Emory University
Title: Emory University/UTHealth Houston T. pallidum Research Service Agreement
Principal Investigator: Diane G Edmondson
Department/Division: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Period of Support: 9/13/2024–12/31/2024
Total Direct Costs: $4,000.00
University of Southern California
Title: ENIGMA World Aging Center
Principal Investigator: Peter Kochunov
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Period of Support: 1/1/2024–12/31/2024
Total Direct Costs: $31,106.00
Texas A&M University Kingsville
Title: Detection of CWD prions exposed to copper and zinc enriched feeding
Principal Investigator: Rodrigo Morales
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 8/1/2024–9/29/2024
Total Direct Costs: $14,545.00
Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium
Title: Cellular senescence as a sex-specific driver of amyloid pathology
Principal Investigator: Rodney Ritzel
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 9/1/2024–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $300,000.00
Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium
Title: Sex specific function of ACSL4 in aging and Alzheimer’s disease
Principal Investigator: Andrey Tsvetkov
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 9/1/2024–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $400,000.00
Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium
Title: Harnessing DNA methylation patterns in TARCC cohort to reveal novel biomarkers
Principal Investigator: Huihui Fan
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 9/1/2024–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $300,000.00
Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium
Title: Cerebrovascular Dysfunction and Rejuvenation in Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis
Principal Investigator: Sithara Thomas
Department/Division: Neurosurgery
Period of Support: 9/1/2024–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $200,000.00
Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium
Title: Pathological characterization and seeding activity of Aß aggregates in eyes
Principal Investigator: Salvatore Saieva
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 9/1/2024–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $184,752.00
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Title: 1/2 Inhaled Nitric Oxide for Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia—The “NONO trial”—a pragmatic, multi-center, de-implementation, stepped-wedge, cluster-randomized trial
Principal Investigator: Matthew Harting
Department/Division: Pediatric Surgery
Period of Support: 9/17/2024–7/31/2031
Total Direct Costs: $476,703.00
Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium
Title: The role of G4 helicase DHX36 in neuronal and astrocytic senescence
Principal Investigator: Vijay Kumar Marumulla Jagadeshwar Rao
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 9/1/2024–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $200,000.00
Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium
Title: Dysfunctional Neuron-Microglia Interactions in Alzheimer’s Disease
Principal Investigator: Keran Ma
Department/Division: Neurobiology and Anatomy
Period of Support: 9/1/2024–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $400,000.00
National Institutes of Health
Title: Study of essential genes in Fusobacterium nucleatum
Principal Investigator: Chenggang Wu
Department/Division: Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Period of Support: 9/17/2024–9/16/2026
Total Direct Costs: $275,000.00
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Title: An innovative device for management of neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury
Principal Investigator: Sheng Li
Department/Division: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Period of Support: 9/19/2024–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $1,315,557.00
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Title: Targeting Extracellular Nucleoside Metabolism as a Strategy to Potentiate the Effects of Immunotherapy in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
Principal Investigator: Ali Azhdarinia
Department/Division: IMM
Period of Support: 11/1/2024–10/31/2025
Total Direct Costs: $40,087.00
Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium
Title: Role of Innate lymphoid Cells in Alzheimer’s Pathology
Principal Investigator: Vijayasree Vayalanellore Giridharan
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Period of Support: 9/1/2024–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $272,726.00
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Title: The role of Huntingtin in endolysosomal trafficking and Huntington’s disease pathogenesis
Principal Investigator: Stephen Matthew Farmer Jr
Department/Division: IMM
Period of Support: 9/18/2024–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $38,124.00
National Institutes of Health/DHHS
Title: Hemin Production by Veillonella: A Novel Mechanism in Inhibiting P. gingivalis Hemolysis
Principal Investigator: Chenggang Wu
Department/Division: Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Period of Support: 9/18/2024–9/17/2026
Total Direct Costs: $275,000.00
Texas Alzheimer’s Research and Care Consortium
Title: Unraveling the Influence of Delirium in Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis
Principal Investigator: Tatiana Barichello
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Period of Support: 9/1/2024–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $390,678.00
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services
Title: Unraveling the Influence of Delirium in Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis
Principal Investigator: Tatiana Barichello
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Period of Support: 9/1/2024–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $390,678.00
U.S. Department of Defense
Title: Long Term Impact of Deployment Exposures on Neuropathy of Brainstem Pathways, Associated Symptoms, and Health Measures in Veterans with GWI
Principal Investigator: Deborah M Little
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Period of Support: 9/30/2024–9/29/2026
Total Direct Costs: $499,993.00
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Title: Screening of strain-specific anti CWD prion molecules
Principal Investigator: Rodrigo Morales
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 9/30/2024–9/29/2025
Total Direct Costs: $225,434.00
Rhode Island Hospital
Title: Neuromuscular Response to Competing ACL Surgeries
Principal Investigator: Payam Zandiyeh
Department/Division: Orthopaedic Surgery
Period of Support: 7/30/2024–6/30/2028
Total Direct Costs: $116,453.00
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Title: Bio-engineered Cell Therapy to Treat Candidiasis
Principal Investigator: Michael Lorenz
Department/Division: Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Period of Support: 8/26/2024–7/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $21,428.00
Ohio State University
Title: Comparative effective of two aspirin doses for prevention of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
Principal Investigator: Baha M Sibai
Department/Division: Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Period of Support: 3/1/2024–2/28/2025
Total Direct Costs: $115,150.00
Texas Education Agency
Title: 2024–2026 Improving Kindergarten Reading Instruments
Principal Investigator: April Crawford
Department/Division: Childrens Learning Institute
Period of Support: 8/1/2024–4/30/2026
Total Direct Costs: $813,585.00
NEXT for Autism, Inc.
Title: Launching! to Adulthood program
Principal Investigator: Antonio Francisco Pagan
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Period of Support: 10/1/2024–9/30/2025
Total Direct Costs: $25,848.00
Project 8P Foundation
Title: Comprehensive genotype-phenotype curation, analysis, and visualization to enhance the Project8p database and portal
Principal Investigator: Dennis Lal
Department/Division: Neurology
Period of Support: 5/1/2024–5/30/2025
Total Direct Costs: $20,000.00
National Institute on Aging
Title: Patient Priorities Survivorship Care for Older Women with Breast Cancer
Principal Investigator: Dana Elena Giza
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Period of Support: 9/27/2024–9/26/2026
Total Direct Costs: $200,000.00
National Institutes of Health
Title: Direct activation of CRF neurons by Abeta disrupts the stress response in Alzheimer’s Disease
Principal Investigator: Nicholas John Justice
Department/Division: IMM
Period of Support: 9/30/2024–8/31/2026
Total Direct Costs: $275,000.00
U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity
Title: Stress Inoculation Training (SIT): An Evidence-Driven, Military-Aligned Psychological Performance and Health Sustainment Prototype
Principal Investigator: Sarah E Jackson
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Period of Support: 9/30/2024–9/29/2027
Total Direct Costs: $499,862.00