The Loma Linda University Health office of research affairs is pleased to announce the latest GRASP (Grants for Research and School Partnerships) awards. Each project will receive $75,000 over 24 months, fulfilling the goal of encouraging collaborative research between researchers across the organization.
“We expect that their studies are successful, that their results will appear in peer-reviewed publications, and that it will contribute to applications for extramural funding,” says Anthony Zuccarelli, PhD, associate vice president for research affairs.
The winning investigators and projects are:
• Christopher Wilson and Traci Marin: “AMPK epigenetically modulates respiratory pattern response to oxidative stress.”
• Xiangpeng Yuan and Wei-Xing Shi: “iPSCs as stem-cell therapy for neonatal brain ischemia”
• Grace Lee and Nicole Gatto: “Dietary patterns and cognitive dysfunction in the aged: Adventist Health Study-2”
• Raymond Knutsen and Penelope Duerksen-Hughes: “The association between adverse life events and biological aging”
These four projects were chosen from 16 applications received from 22 different co-investigators. Each was scored by a panel of senior researchers to determine the awardees.