Two BUSM investigators were awarded 2016 Research Grants by the Alzheimer’s Association to support their work studying various aspects of the disease.
Two of the NIH awards, totaling $5 million, will support a new National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute initiative aimed to develop stem cell-based treatments for heart, lung and blood diseases.
Claudia Satizabal, PhD, will use the grant to further study the impact of obesity on brain aging and Alzheimer’s Disease.
Dr. Seshadri, professor of neurology, has been awarded three grants totaling nearly $20 million from the NIA and the NINDS.
Funding will examine impact of alcohol on comorbidities among those with HIV.
The combined New England consortium will receive initial funding of $4 million to begin recruitment and build infrastructure.
Anderson, a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Hui Feng, has received a three-year, $150,000 Young Investigator Award from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation.
Foundation has awarded Casey Taft, PhD, professor of Psychiatry, a grant for the national expansion of an intervention to prevent and reduce intimate partner violence in veteran populations.
Haiyan Gong, MD, PhD received a $150,000 award and Tsuneya Ikezu, MD, PhD received a $300,000 grant.
CityLab has received a $1.3 million Science Education Partnership Award from the NIH that combines afterschool squash training and academic STEM enrichment programs.