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Intramural Research Awards

Augusta University offers various competitive intramural grants to our researchers.  

  • AU-GSU Seed Award Program
  • Career Development Scholar Program
  • Converge Rural Health Grant Program
  • Implementation Science Pilot Grant (ISPG)
  • Intramural Grant Program (IGP)
  • Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity (RSCA) Award
  • Translational Pilot Grant Program
FY 2026 Recipients  Previous Recipients  Application Information

FY 2026 Recipients

award icon Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity (RSCA) Award

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Matteo Borgini, Ph.D.

  • College of Science and Mathmatics
  • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

“Mapping Protein Targets of Novel Covalent Inhibitors to Expand the Druggable
Proteome”

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Mohamed Ibrahem, Ph.D.

  • School of Computer and Cyber Science
  • Department of Computer Science

“SHIELD: Secure and Adaptive LLM-Powered Healthcare in Resource-Limited
Settings”

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Michael Katz, Ph.D.

  • Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
  • Department of Psychological Sciences

“Profiles of Therapist Technique in Community Practice in Relation to Patient
Crying: A US Pilot”

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Robert Saunders, Ph.D.

  • Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
  • Department of Music

“Let's Jam: A Community Music Method”

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Blaire Zeiders, Ph.D.

  • Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Department of
  • English and World Languages

“The Arthurian Catechism: Reading Literature as Liturgy in Early Modern
England”

award icon Career Development Scholar Program (CDSP) Award

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Lorriane Odhiambo, Ph.D.

  • School of Public Health
  • Department of Biostatics, Data Science and Epidemiology

“Feasibility of Smartphone-Enabled Active Case-Finding for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in the Clinical Setting”

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Dustin Pluta, Ph.D.

  • School of Public Health
  • Department of Biostatics, Data Science and Epidemiology

“GP-Augmented Survival Models for Multi-Cancer Outcomes in SEER-Medicare Data”

 

award icon

award icon Intramural Grant Program (IGP)

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Dr. Jessica Faulkner

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Physiology

“Lipid peroxidation-driven mechanisms for peripartum cardiomyopathy”

 

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Dr. Daria Ilatovskaya

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Physiology

“Lipid peroxidation-driven mechanisms for peripartum cardiomyopathy”

 

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Dr. Stephen Hsu

  • Dental College of Georgia
  • Department of Oral Biology & Periodontics

“EC16 Nanoparticles as a Novel Drug Delivery System for Neurodegenerative Diseases"

 

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Dr. Ranya El Sayed

  • Dental College of Georgia
  • Department of Oral Biology & Periodontics

“EC16 Nanoparticles as a Novel Drug Delivery System for Neurodegenerative Diseases"

 

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Dr. Guido Verbeck

  • College of Science and Mathematics
  • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

“EC16 Nanoparticles as a Novel Drug Delivery System for Neurodegenerative Diseases"

 

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Dr. Amal Kaddoumi

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

"Dietary supplementation with EVOO phenolics prevents MCI progression to Alzheimer’s disease”

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Dr. Ryan Harris

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Georgia Prevention Institute

"Dietary supplementation with EVOO phenolics prevents MCI progression to Alzheimer’s disease”

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Dr. Siva Panda

  • College of Science and Mathematics
  • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

“Translational Development of Hybrid Conjugates: A Novel Strategy for Treating Metastatic Breast Cancer”

 

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Dr. Brian Stansfield

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Pediatrics

"A Novel Liver-Eye Axis Implicated in Retinopathy of Prematurity”

 

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Dr. Nicola Zetola Burneo

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Pulmonary

"PNP-US: Validation, Calibration, and Silent Prospective Evaluation of a Capacity-Aware Hospital Deterioration Prediction System”

 

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Dipankar Ash, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Vascular Biology Center

“Miro1-mediated mitochondrial transfer from endothelial cells protects against retinal ischemia-reperfusion injury”

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Waylon Brunette, Ph.D.

  • School of Computer and Cyber Science
  • Department of
  • Computer and Cyber Sciences

“Automated Generation and Evaluation of Clinical Case-Based Multiple-Choice Questions Using Biomedical Ontologies and Transformer Models”

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Ahmet Guven, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Educational Innovation Institute

“Automated Generation and Evaluation of Clinical Case-Based Multiple-Choice Questions Using Biomedical Ontologies and Transformer Models”

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Nicole Winston, PharmD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of
  • Academic Affairs - Curriculum

“Automated Generation and Evaluation of Clinical Case-Based Multiple-Choice Questions Using Biomedical Ontologies and Transformer Models”

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Rudolf Lucas, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Vascular Biology Center

“A novel peptide-based approach to improve vascular endothelial function in T1D”

 

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Muthusamy Thangaraju, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

“Netrin-1 is a new and novel biomarker and a potential therapeutic target for the ADPKD cystogenesis”

 

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Wei Zhang, Ph.D.

  • School of Computer and Cyber Sciences
  • Depertment of Computer Science

“Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Neuroimaging to Advance Stroke Analysis and Understanding”

 

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Xingguo Zhu, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Georgia Cancer Center

“Decoding Gamma Globin Repression via a DNAse I Cis-Regulatory Element”

 

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Betty Pace, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Depertment of Pediatrics

“Decoding Gamma Globin Repression via a DNAse I Cis-Regulatory Element”

 

Previous Recipients

FY 2025

award icon AU-GSU Seed Award Program

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Sumit Fogla, MD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Family and Community Medicine, AU

"Enhancing Care of Older Adults in Chronic Illness Clinic Using the 4M Aging Model"

GSU PI:  Katherine Hsieh, PhD, Department of Physical Therapy, GSU

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Wei Zhang, PhD

  • School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, AU
  • Department of Computer & Cyber Sciences

“A Large Language Model and An Efficient Deep Learning-Based Framework to Advance Early and Non-invasive Diagnostics for Mild Cognitive Impairment”

GSU PI: Houping Xiao, PhD, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, GSU


award icon Converge Rural Health Grant Program

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Vahe Heboyan, Ph.D.

  • School of Public Health
  • Department of Health Management, Economics, and Policy

“Pilot testing of an economic decision model for community based preventive interventions for dental caries in vulnerable populations”


University of Aberdeen PI:

Dwayne Boyers, Ph.D.

Department of Health Economics

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Stephanie Johnson Ph.D.

  • College of Allied Health Sciences
  • Department of Occupational Therapy

“Exploration of Occupational Therapy management for people with Parkinson’s disease: A cross-sectional comparison between the state of Georgia and Scotland”


Robert Gordon University PI:

Julie Jones, Ph.D.

School of Health Sciences, Department of Economic, Social and Cultural Development

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Ashwini Tiwari, Ph.D. & Matthew Cornish, MD

  • School of Public Health
  • Department Community and Behavioral Health Sciences

“Advancing Trauma-Informed Care in Pediatric Primary Care Settings Serving Rural Populations- A Comparative Exploration of Practices in Augusta and the Grampian Region"


Robert Gordon University PI:

Kayleigh-Anne Walker, MSc

School of Health Sciences 

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Matthew Cornish, MD & Ashwini Tiwari, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Pediatrics: General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

“Advancing Trauma-Informed Care in Pediatric Primary Care Settings Serving Rural Populations- A Comparative Exploration of Practices in Augusta and the Grampian Region"


Robert Gordon University PI:

Kayleigh-Anne Walker, MSc

School of Health Sciences 

award icon Implementation Science Pilot Grant (ISPG)

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Dr. Marlo Vernon

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology

“Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Gestational Diabetes: A Pilot Study”

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Dr. Ashwini Pandey

  • School of Public Health
  • Department of Community & Behavioral Health Science

“From Training to Action: Using Implementation Science to Explore Trauma-Informed Care in Rural Georgia”

award icon Intramural Grant Program (IGP)

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Wendy Bollag, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Physiology
“Investigating Potential Treatments for Dry Eye Disease in Mouse Models”
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Shruti Sharma, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Ophthalmology
“Investigating Potential Treatments for Dry Eye Disease in Mouse Models”
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Gokila Dorai, Ph.D.

  • School of Computer and Cyber Sciences
  • Department of Computer & Cyber Sciences
“Autonomous Detection and Event-driven Problem Tracker for AI-enabled Systems”
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Santhakumar Manicassamy, Ph.D.

  • Georgia Cancer Center
  • Department of Immunotherapy
“Regulation of Fungal Infection-associated AKI by LRP5/6”
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Nagendra Singh, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
“Role of UFM1 in Conventional Dendritic Cells 1 (cDC1)”
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Shaoyong Su, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Georgia Prevention Institute
“Psychosocial Stress in Early Life, Chronodisruption and Accelerated Aging in Mid Life: A Life-Course Approach”
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Xiaoling Wang, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Georgia Prevention Institute
“Psychosocial Stress in Early Life, Chronodisruption and Accelerated Aging in Mid Life: A Life-Course Approach”
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Alexander Verin, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Medicine: Pulmonary
“Ecto CKII in Age-Mediated Acute Lung Injury”
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Graydon Gonsalvez, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy
"The Dynein motor and its adaptors are required
for formation of primary cilia"
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Paul Langridge, Ph.D.

  • College of Science and Mathematics,
  • Department of Biological Sciences
"The Role of Neuronal Guidance Protein Cleavage in Neurite Repulsion"
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Honglin Li, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
"Molecular Mechanism of Ufmylation-Mediated Regulation of Erythropoiesis"
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Stuart Thompson, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Infectious Disease
"Novel Regulators of Campylobacter Jejuni Oxidative and
Nitrosative Stress Resistance"
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Seungwoo Kang, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
“The brain mechanisms underlying sleep disturbance induced by withdrawal from repeated ethanol exposure"
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Jason Orlosky, Ph.D.

  • School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, AU
  • Department of Computer and Cyber Sciences
"Generation of real-time AR Work Instructions using Object recognition and Large Language Models"
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Xingming Shi, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine
"Role of Long Noncoding RNA Xist in Bone"
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Syed Zaidi, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Vascular Biology
"Polyamines and retinopathy of prematurity complications"

 award icon Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity (RSCA) Award

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Jennifer Bradford, Ph.D.

  • College of Science and Mathmatics
  • Department of Biology

“Determining How the CXCR3/CXCL10 and NF-kappaB Signaling Pathways are Connected to Alter Macrophage Phenotype in Triple Negative Breast Cancer”

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Rebecca Harper, Ph.D.

  • College of Education and Human Development
  • Department of Research, Counseling and Curriculum

“Literacy on the Field: How Athletics Programs Support a Reinforce Literacy Skills”

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Courtney Kalbacker, DMA

  • College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
  • Department of Music

“Defining the Defiant: A Guide to the Art Song and Opera of E. Adaïewsky (1846-1926) for Performers, Teachers and Scholars"

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Paul Langridge, Ph.D.

  • College of Science and Mathmatics
  • Department of Biology

“Biophysical Principles of Synthetic Cell-Cell Signaling in Vivo"

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Benjamin Ogrodnik, Ph.D.

  • College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
  • Department of
  • Art and Design

"Unraveling a Cotton Nation: Textile Histories and Women Artists of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands"

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Peter Robinson, Ph.D.

  • School of Computer and Cyber Sciences
  • Department of Computer and Science Sciences

"Secure Distributed Graph Processing"

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Rhucha Samudra, Ph.D.

  • College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
  • Department of Social Sciences

"Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Mental Health Outcomes"

FY 2024

award icon AU-GSU Seed Award Program 

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Gianluca De Leo, PhD

  • College of Allied Health Sciences
  • Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences

“Teaching Parents Communication Strategies Using an APP: Examining Parent-Child Outcomes”

GSU PI:  MaryAnn Romski, PhD and Rose Sevcik, PhD

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Deborah Jehu, PhD

  • College of Allied Health Sciences
  • Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences

“The Predictors of Falls Among Older Adults with Impaired Mobility”

GSU PI: Katherine Hsieh, PhD

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Christy Ledford, PhD, FACH

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Family Medicine

“Does community engagement promote health equity by increasing recruitment and retention of racially and ethnically diverse samples?”

GSU PI: Claire Spears, PhD

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Qihua Qiu, PhD

  • James M. Hull College of Business

“Racial/ethnic disparities in changes in prescription medication expenditures on smoking cessation medication among U.S. adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic”

GSU PI:  Jidong Huang, PhD

 award icon Converge Rural Health Grant Program  

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Kendall Buchanan, MD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Dermatology

“Using app-based digital healthcare intervention to encourage total skin self-examination by melanoma survivors”

University of Aberdeen PI: Peter Murchie, PhD,

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Denise Kornegay, MSW

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Area Health Education Centers

“How can hybrid healthcare education drive change in remote, rural, and island practice?”

University of Aberdeen PI: Anita Laidlaw

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Travis McMaine, DMD

  • Dental College of Georgia
  • Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

“Study of rural residents using urgent care and emergency departments for dental care: Examination of the relationship between visits to urgent care facilities and emergency departments due to non-traumatic dental conditions among residents of DHPSAs in the state of Georgia (GA) as well as Aberdeen and surrounding areas"

University of Aberdeen PI: Ekta Gupta, PhD

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Preethi Reddi

  • Medical College of Georgia

“Maternal health- delayed antenatal care: Understanding barriers to care through the perspectives of new mothers who experienced delayed antenatal care in rural Georgia and rural Scotland”

Robert Gordon University PI: Joanna Shim

award icon Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity (RSCA) Award

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Namwon Choi, MFA

  • College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences - Art and Design
"248 Miles, solo exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia"
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Christina Heckman, Ph.D.

  • College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences - English and World Languages
"Embodied Places: Early Medieval Saints and Local Lives"
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Mohamed Ibrahem, Ph.D.

  • School of Computer & Cyber Sciences

"SAFE-5G: Safeguarding 5G and Beyond Networks Against Cyber Threats and Data Privacy Leaks in the Era of AI-driven ORAN"

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Eric Numfor, Ph.D.

  • College of Science and Mathematics

"The Impact of Defective Viral Genomes on the Spread and Control of SARS-CoV-2: Multiscale Modeling"

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Wendy Turner, Ph.D.

  • College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences - History, Anthropology, and Philosophy

"Connections Between Violence and Mental Trauma in Medieval English Legal Records"

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Angelia Winkler, Ph.D.

  • College Of Education - Kinesiology

"Hydration and cardiovascular disease risk assessments in firefighters"

award icon Intramural Grant Program (IGP)

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Onyeka Ezenwoye, Ph.D.

  • School of Computer and Cyber Sciences
  • Computer and Cyber Sciences
"Automated Classification of Software Vulnerability Attributes for Enhanced Threat Modeling"
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Dawn Langley-Brady, Ph.D, MSN

  • College of Nursing
  • Nursing Science
"Elucidating Biological Pathways of Essential Oils for Analgesia in Chronic Pain"
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Ashwini Tiwari, Ph.D.

  • Institute of Public and Preventive Health
  • Health Management, Economics and Policy

"Exploring Maternal and Child Health through Systematic Braiding- A Breastfeeding and Parenting Initiative for Expecting African American Women"

 

MPIs: Drs. Tiwari, Vernon and Datta

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Marlo Vernon, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • GA Prevention Institute

"Exploring Maternal and Child Health through Systematic Braiding- A Breastfeeding and Parenting Initiative for Expecting African American Women"

 

MPIs: Drs. Tiwari, Vernon and Datta

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Biplab Datta, Ph.D.

  • Institute of Public and Preventive Health
  • Health Management, Economics and Policy

"Exploring Maternal and Child Health through Systematic Braiding- A Breastfeeding and Parenting Initiative for Expecting African American Women"

 

MPIs: Drs. Tiwari, Vernon and Datta

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Xiaoling Wang, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • GA Prevention Institute

"Stress, chronodisruption and accelerated aging: the mechanistic view from diurnal oscillations of salivary metabolomics and microbiome"

 

MPIs: Drs. Wang and Baban

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Babak Baban, Ph.D.

  • Dental College of Georgia
  • Oral Biology and Diagnostic Sciences

"Stress, chronodisruption and accelerated aging: the mechanistic view from diurnal oscillations of salivary metabolomics and microbiome"

 

MPIs: Drs. Wang and Baban

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Haidong Zhu, MD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • GA Prevention Institute
"Preeclampsia and Pregnancy Hypertension:

Mechanisms and Biomarkers for early detection"

 

MPIs: Drs. Zhu and Vernon

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Marlo Vernon, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • GA Prevention Institute
"Preeclampsia and Pregnancy Hypertension:

Mechanisms and Biomarkers for early detection"

 

MPIs: Drs. Zhu and Vernon

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Xingguo Zhu, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Georgia Cancer Center

"Heme-induced metabolic stress drives ferroptosis in sickle cell disease"

 

MPIs: Drs. Zhu and Pace

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Betty Pace, MD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Georgia Cancer Center

"Heme-induced metabolic stress drives ferroptosis in sickle cell disease"

 

MPIs: Drs. Zhu and Pace

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Manuela Bartoli, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Ophthalmology
"Inflammaging and Diabetic Retinopathy"
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Jian-Kang Chen

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Cellular Biology & Anatomy
"Generating Essential Pilot Data on Renal Tubular Cells in Diabetes for an R01 Grant Submission"
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Yanbin Dong, MD, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • GA Prevention Institute
"Are health benefits of school-based moderate to vigorous physical activity interventions in childhood carried forward into young adulthood?"
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Sergei Kirov, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine
"Synaptic Circuitry in Stroke"
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Lawrence Layman, MD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
"Genetics Causes of Infertility"
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Lin Gan, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine
"Genetics Causes of Infertility"
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David Mysona, MD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
"Use of Artificial Intelligence for Improved Surgical Outcomes and Education"
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Kim Barker, Ph.D.

  • College of Education and Human Development
  • Teaching and Learning

"CLIMBE: Collaborative Learning in a Multidisciplinary Based Environment" 

 

MPI's: Dr. Barker and Sharon Swift

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Sharon Swift, EDD, OTR/L

  • College of Allied Health Sciences
  • Occupational Therapy

"CLIMBE: Collaborative Learning in a Multidisciplinary Based Environment" 

 

MPI's: Dr. Barker and Sharon Swift

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Darren Browning, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
 "The role of female sex hormones in intestinal aging"
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Ahmed Elmarakby, Ph.D.

  • Dental College of Georgia
  • Oral Biology & Diagnostic Sciences
 "Sex-specific effects of EETs in obesity-induced inflammation"
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Elena Schiopu, MD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Rheumatology
 "Healthcare disparities and increased organ damage in Black Sjogren's patients via endothelial damage pathways"
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David Stepp, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Vascular Biology
 "A Novel Model of Skeletal Muscle Aging"

FY 2023

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Stephen Hsu, PhD

  • Dental College of Georgia
  • Department of Oral Biology andDiagnostic Sciences

"Pre-IND studies of novel EC16 nasal formulations to reduce Post-COVID neurologic symptoms"

GSU PI: Mukesh Kumar PhD, DVM, Biology Department

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Stacie Pettit, PhD

  • College of Education Department of Teaching and Leading

"Factors Influencing the Successful Transition of Students in Foster Care to Higher Education: An Exploratory Pilot Study"

GSU PI: Ann DiGirolamo, PhD, MPH, Georgia Health Policy Center

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Christy Ledford, PhD, FACH

  • Medical College of Georgia Department of Family Medicine

 "Novel instruments for assessing community perceptions of researchers and the research process"

GSU PI: Leslie Wolf, JD, MPH, College of Law

 

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Rachel Elam, MD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Medicine
"Development of a fracture absolute risk assessment tool for persons with type 2 diabetes"
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Hong Shi, MD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Medicine
"The Role of Perivascular Adipose Tissue in Regulating Endothelial Function in Lupus-Prone Mice"

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Jennifer Bradford, PhD

  • College of Science and Mathematics
  • Department of Biological Sciences
"Characterizing Breast Cancer Modulation of CXCR3/CXCL10 Axis via Macrophage NF-kappaB Signaling"
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Dinesh Hasija, PhD

  • Hull College of Business
  • Department of Management
"Investigation of Recent Presidential Proclamation of Steel Tariffs"
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John Hayes, PhD

  • Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
  • Department of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy
"The People Rebelled"
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E. Nicole Meyer, PhD

  • Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
  • Department of English and Foreign Languages
"Family Fractures in Contemporary French and Francophone Women’s Autobiography"
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Siva Panda, PhD

  • College of Science and Mathematics
  • Department of Chemistry and Physics
"Development of Potential Hybrid Conjugates for Breast Cancer treatment"
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Marcel Ramalho de Mello, DA

  • Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
  • Department of Music
"The Choral Music of José Siqueira (1907-1985): An Introductory Survey"

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Ahmed El-Awady, PhD

  • Dental College of Georgia
  • Department of Periodontics

"The Role of Myeloid Derived Suppressor Cells in Dendritic Cell Dysfunction in Periodontitis"

 

MPIs: Drs. El-Awady and Korkaya

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Hasan Korkaya, PhD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Georgia Cancer Center

"The Role of Myeloid Derived Suppressor Cells in Dendritic Cell Dysfunction in Periodontitis"

 

MPIs: Drs. El-Awady and Korkaya

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Joshua Thomas, PhD

  • College of Nursing
  • Department of Nursing Science

"COV, Mental Health, and Soul Study (CMAS STUDY)"

 

MPIs: Drs. Thomas and McCall

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W. Vaughn McCall

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior

"COV, Mental Health, and Soul Study (CMAS STUDY)"

 

MPIs: Drs. Thomas and McCall

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Molly Kindred, PhD

  • College of Education and Human Development
  • Department of Kinesiology
"Healthy Living: Incorporating lifestyle interventions to encourage a reduction in body weight"
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Qihua Qiu, PhD

  • James M. Hull College of Business
  • Economics and Finance
"Youth driving restrictions, ambient air quality, and youth asthma incidence" 
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Nicholas Schoenmann, MD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Emergency Medicine

"Severe hemorrhage resuscitation with dichloroacetate in a swine model"

 

MPIs: Drs. Schoenmann, Raju, and Lyon

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Raghavan Raju, PhD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

"Severe hemorrhage resuscitation with dichloroacetate in a swine model"

 

MPIs: Drs. Schoenmann, Raju, and Lyon

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Matthew Lyon, MD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Emergency Medicine

"Severe hemorrhage resuscitation with dichloroacetate in a swine model"

 

MPIs: Drs. Schoenmann, Raju, and Lyon

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Shruti Sharma, PhD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Center for Biotechnology and Genomic

"Interleukin-6 trans signaling and Inflammaging"

 

MPIs: Drs. Sharma and Hoffman

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Jessica Hoffman, PhD

  • College of Science and Mathematics
  • Department of Biological Sciences

"Interleukin-6 trans signaling and Inflammaging"

 

MPIs: Drs. Sharma and Hoffman

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Alexander Verin, PhD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Vascular Biology Center

"ESAM-mediated mechanisms of lung injury in HFpEF"

 

MPIs: Drs. Verin and Bagi

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Zsolt Bagi, MD, PhD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Department of Physiology

"ESAM-mediated mechanisms of lung injury in HFpEF"

 

MPIs: Drs. Verin and Bagi

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Wei Zhang, DPB

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Vascular Biology Center

"Elucidation of the in vivo function of DDX21 in proliferative vasculopathy"

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Gabor Csanyi, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Vascular Biology Center

"SMC macropinocytosis: A novel target in atherosclerotic vascular disease"

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Yan Cui, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Georgia Cancer Center

"Markers of oral precancer progression to cancer"

 

MPIs: Drs. Cui, Huidong, and Kurago

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Shi Huidong, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

"Markers of oral precancer progression to cancer"

 

MPIs: Drs. Cui, Huidong, and Kurago

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Zoya Kurago, DDS, Ph.D.

  • Dental College of Georgia
  • Oral Biology & Diagnostic Sciences

"Markers of oral precancer progression to cancer"

 

MPIs: Drs. Cui, Huidong, and Kurago

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Catherine Davis, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Georgia Prevention Institute

"Glycemic Excursion Minimization (GEM) to Outshine Health Disparities"

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Kunzhe Dong, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Pharmacology & Toxicology

"Dissecting mechanism underlying regulation of lncRNA PRDM16-DT on its adjacent gene PRDM16 in vascular smooth muscle cells"

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Ali Eroglu, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Neuroscience & Regenerative Medicine

"Clinical-grade vitrification of human oocytes and ovaries"

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Pamela Martin, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

"Understanding the relevance of RPE-BHB in retinal health and disease"

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Riyaz Mohamed, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Physiology

“Netrin-1 signaling in renal cystogenesis"

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Muthusamy Thangaraju, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

"RAD51AP1 is a novel therapeutic target for PARP inhibitor-associated drug resistance in triple-negative breast cancer"

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Guangyu Wu, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Pharmacology & Toxicology

"Spatiotemporal regulation of GPCR-mediated MAPK activation in prostate cancer"

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Marlo Vernon, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Georgia Cancer Center

"Improving Pregnancy Outcomes through Remote Monitoring"

 

MPIs: Drs. Vernon and Tracy

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Dustin Tracy, Ph.D.

  • School of Public Health
  • Health Economics & Policy

"Improving Pregnancy Outcomes through Remote Monitoring"

 

MPIs: Drs. Vernon and Tracy

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Zsolt Bagi, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Physiology

"Microvascular and immune cell mechanisms of cancer development in HFpEF"

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Jiankang Chen, Ph.D.

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Cellular Biology & Anatomy

"Producing Pilot Data for R01 Resubmission to Study Pik3c3 in Diabetic Nephropathy"

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Lynn Glenn, Ph.D.

  • College of Nursing
  • Nursing Science

"Healthy Women & Healthy Communities: A Tailored Diabetes Prevention Program Designed to Create Healthy Women, Healthy Communities, and Health Equity in Rural GA"

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Sharad Purohit, Ph.D.

  • College of Allied Health Sciences
  • Undergraduate Health Professions

"Serum anti-glycan antibodies are associated with progression to T1D"

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Wendy Bollag, Ph.D., FAHA

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Physiology

"The Sex-specific Role of the Co-activator, Peroxisome Proliferator-activated"

 

MPIs: Drs. Bollag and Isales

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Carlos Isales, MD

  • Medical College of Georgia
  • Medicine

"The Sex-specific Role of the Co-activator, Peroxisome Proliferator-activated"

 

MPIs: Drs. Bollag and Isales

 

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