The following departmental faculty were awarded new competitive and non-competitive research grants (of $100,000 +) during calendar year 2021.
Joseph P. Mathew, MD, MHSc, MBA
Identification and Validation of a Novel Central Analgesia Circuit
Award Date: 12/23/21
Funding Agency: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Grant Amount: $174,182
Wei Yang, PhD, FAHA
Immunosuppression After Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
Award Date: 12/21/21
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Grant Amount: $1,619,689
Wei Yang, PhD, FAHA
The Unfolded Protein Response in Ischemic Stroke
Award Date: 12/15/21
Award Type: R01
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Grant Amount: $2,012,500
Wei Yang, PhD, FAHA
The Unfolded Protein Response and Neuroprotection in Stroke
Award Date: 12/3/21
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Grant Amount: $347,813
David B. MacLeod, MB BS, FRCA, Dip IMC
MDT DIGI2 Study
Award Date: 12/3/21
Funding Agency: Medtronic, Inc.
Grant Amount: $900,149
Paul E. Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC
Clinical Nutrition Training Virtual Fellowship Program
Award Date: 11/24/21
Funding Agency: Abbott Nutrition
Grant Amount: $196,000
Marie-Louise Meng, MD
Cardiovascular Risk Prediction for Improved Maternal Health
Award Date: 10/9/2021
Funding Agency: Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER)
Grant Amount: $250,000
Jorn A. Karhausen, MD
Platelet-Mast Cell Interactions as Determinants of the Vascular Pathology in Septic Shock
Award Date: 9/22/2021
Funding Agency: NIH, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Grant Amount: $1,719,290
Jamie R. Privratsky, MD, PhD
Novel Mitochondrial Protective Properties of Annexin A1
Award Date: 9/22/2021
Award Type: R01
Funding Agency: NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Grant Amount: $1,610,000
Melissa E. Bauer, DO
Large-scale Implementation of Community Co-led Maternal Sepsis Care Practices to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality from Maternal Infection
Award Date: 9/17/2021
Funding Agency: NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
Grant Amount: $1,575,463
Paul E. Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC
Remotely Monitored, Mobile health-supported High Intensity Interval Training after COVID-19 Critical Illness (REMM HIIT-Covid19)
Award Date: 9/17/2021
Funding Agency: NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
Grant Amount: $4,059,863
Joseph P. Mathew, MD, MHSc, MBA
Neurocognition and Greater Maintenance of Sinus Rhythm in AF (NOGGIN AF)
Award Date: 8/27/2021
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Grant Amount: $3,739,083
Ru-Rong Ji, PhD
Prevention of Pain Chronification and Neuroinflammation After Traumatic Brain Injury by Neuroprotectin D1 and GPR37 Signaling
Award Date: 8/27/2021
Funding Agency: Department of Defense
Grant Amount: $1,444,257
Ru-Rong Ji, PhD
Monoclonal Antibody-Based Therapeutics for Targeting MMPs and Diabetic Neuropathy
Award Date: 8/27/2021
Funding Agency: Department of Defense
Grant Amount: $1,601,314
Satya Achanta, DVM, PhD, DABT
Inhibition of Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Protects Against Phosgene-Induced Lung Injuries
Award Date: 8/16/2021
Award Type: R21
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Grant Amount: $442,750
Michael Devinney, MD, PhD
The Association of Blood-Brain Barrier Breakdown with Sleep Apnea and Postoperative Delirium
Award Date: 7/30/2021
Award Type: R03 GEMSSTAR
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Grant Amount: $322,000
Niccolò Terrando, BSc, DIC, PhD
Immunoprofiling Postoperative Delirium During Aging and Neurodegeneration
Award Date: 7/26/2021
Award Type: R21
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging
Grant Amount: $239,843
Madhav Swaminathan, MD, MMCi, FASE
Accuryn Registry Study
Award Date: 7/22/2021
Funding Agency: Potrero Medical, Inc
Grant Amount: $272,482
Andrea G. Nackley, PhD
Defining the Role of Peripheral Adrb3 in Chronic Pain and Inflammation
Award Date: 7/19/2021
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Grant Amount: $534,634
Jorn A. Karhausen, MD
Mast Cell Activation as a Determinant of Neurologic Injury After Cardiac Arrest
Award Date: 7/19/2021
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Grant Amount: $199,062
Andrea G. Nackley, PhD
Vestibulodynia: Understanding Pathophysiology and Determining Appropriate Treatments (Vestibulodynia: UPDATe)
Award Date: 7/9/2021
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Grant Amount: $2,260,197
Ashraf S. Habib, MBBCh, MSc, MHSc, FRCA
Heron HTX-019-203
Award Date: 6/28/2021
Funding Agency: Heron Therapeutics, Inc.
Grant Amount: $460,445
David S. Warner, MD
Integrated Training in Anesthesiology Research
Award Date: 6/23/2021
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Grant Amount: $1,714,260
Vijay Krishnamoorthy, MD, PhD
Mechanisms and Clinical Impact of Myocardial Injury Following Traumatic Brain Injury
Award Date: 6/23/2021
Award Type: K23
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Grant Amount: $944,405
Alina Nicoara, MD, FASE
Right Ventricle Adaptive Changes in Patients Undergoing Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation
Award Date: 5/25/2021
Award Type: SCA 2021 Mid-Career Grant
Funding Agency: Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA)
Grant Amount: $100,000
Niccolò Terrando, BSc, DIC, PhD
Neurovascular Dysfunction in Delirium Superimposed on Dementia
Award Date: 5/18/2021
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Grant Amount: $526,781
Satya Achanta, DVM, PhD, DABT
Specialized Pro-Resolving Mediators as Potential Medical Countermeasures in a Pig Model of Chlorine Gas-Induced Acute Lung Injury
Award Date: 5/6/2021
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Grant Amount: $241,500
Heath Gasier, PhD
Effects of HBO2 on Skeletal Muscle Calcium Regulation and Mitochondrial Function
Award Date: 5/5/2021
Funding Agency: Office of Naval Research
Grant Amount: $227,954
Thomas E. Buchheit, MD
Neuronal and Glial Interactions of Neuropathic Pain
Award Date: 4/29/2021
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Grant Amount: $488,534
Richard E. Moon, MD, CM, MSc, FRCP, FACP, FCCP
Integrated Diaphragmatic Function, Chemosensitivity, Erythrocyte Gas Transport and Endurance in Exercising Divers
Award Date: 4/27/2021
Funding Agency: Office of Naval Research
Grant Amount: $1,209,589
Miles Berger, MD, PhD
Neuro-Inflammation in Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction: CSF and fMRI Studies
Award Date: 4/22/2021
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Grant Amount: $235,775
Jamie R. Privratsky, MD, PhD
The Role of the IL-1 Receptor in the AKI to CKD Transition
Award Date: 4/15/2021
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Grant Amount: $187,854
Karthik Raghunathan, MBBS, MPH
Sugammadex versus Neostigmine in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
Award Date: 4/13/2021
Funding Agency: Merck & Co., Inc.
Grant Amount: $362,121
Paul E. Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC
REmotely Monitored, Mobile-Health High Intensity Interval Training after Critical Care (REMM-HIIT)
Award Date: 4/1/2021
Funding Agency: Society of Critical Care Medicine
Grant Amount: $100,000
Brad M. Taicher, DO, MBA
MDT20032 BTIGER
Award Date: 3/30/2021
Funding Agency: Medtronic, Inc.
Grant Amount: $105,258
Richard E. Moon, MD, CM, MSc, FRCP, FACP, FCCP
Perfluoromethane to Reduce Decompression Sickness
Award Date: 3/25/2021
Funding Agency: Naval Sea Systems Command
Grant Amount: $850,502
Ashraf S. Habib, MBBCh, MSc, MHSc, FRCA
Covance HSK3486-304
Award Date: 2/26/2021
Funding Agency: Haisco-USA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Grant Amount: $536,668
William Maixner, DDS, PhD
Role of Preoperative Baroreflex Sensitivity on Postoperative and Persistent Pain after Thoracic Surgery
Award Date: 2/3/2021
Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health
Grant Amount: $201,250
Sven-Eric Jordt, PhD
Project 1: Effects of Flavors on Nicotine Choice and Central Reward Me
Award Date: 1/28/2021
Funding Agency: Yale University
Grant Amount: $276,375
Ashraf S. Habib, MBBCh, MSc, MHSc, FRCA
HERON HTX-011
Award Date: 1/11/2021
Funding Agency: Heron Therapeutics, Inc.
Grant Amount: $204,835
Noa Segall, PhD
Designing Informative and Trustworthy Augmented Intelligence Health Risk Prediction and Surveillance
Award Date: 1/5/2021
Funding Agency: Idaho State University
Grant Amount: $253,522