September 2024
Lois Geist named interim UI vice president for research
September 11, 2024 - Lois J. Geist, associate provost for faculty and professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in the Carver College of Medicine, has been named interim vice president for research at Iowa, effective Sept. 16.
Issuree awarded R35 Outstanding Investigator Award
September 3, 2024 - Priya Issuree, PhD, was awarded an R35 Outstanding Investigator Award, a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).
August 2024
Swee wins VAQS Rising Star Award
August 29, 2024 - Melissa Swee, MD, MME, clinical assistant professor in Nephrology and Hypertension, and Iowa VA Quality Scholars (VAQS) Program Director, has been awarded the Rising Star Award by the national VA Quality Scholars Program.
Chaurasia receives Carver grant to further insulin-resistance research
Bhagirath Chaurasia, PhD, assistant professor in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center, has received a three-year, $450,000 grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust. The grant will fund Chaurasia’s research program “Role of serine in development of obesity-induced insulin resistance.”
Stephens earns NIDDK R01
Samuel Stephens, PhD, Associate Professor in Endocrinology and Metabolism, has been awarded a three-year, $1.3M R01 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) for his project, Defining the contribution of mitochondrial redox metabolism to support proinsulin folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER).
E. Stapleton earns EHSRC CDA
Emma Stapleton, PhD, research assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, earned a one-year, $15,000 Environmental Health Sciences Research Center (EHSRC) Career Development Award (CDA).
Hagner awarded Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research Fellowship Grant
Miles Hagner, MD, instructor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, was recently awarded a two-year FSR Sarcoidosis Research Fellowship Grant in the amount of $150,000 for his project, The Role of Airway Epithelial Responses in Sarcoidosis Pathophysiology.
Yu earns ALA Catalyst Award
Wenjie Yu, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Welsh Lab in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, earned a Catalyst Award from the American Lung Association (ALA) in the amount of $50,000 per year for two years for his project, Submucosal Gland Hypertrophy in a Porcine Model of PCD: Histological, Cellular, and Pathophysiological Features.
July 2024
Hamzeh, Simmering earn Ann Theodore Foundation grant
A multidisciplinary team led by primary investigators Nabeel Hamzeh, MD and Karin Hoth, PhD has earned a two-year, $575,000 grant from the Ann Theodore Foundation to study cognitive dysfunction in people with sarcoidosis. Co-investigators are Jacob Simmering, PhD, Vincent Magnotta, PhD.
Faro leads project to improve Midwestern new moms' mental health
Elissa Faro, PhD, assistant professor in General Internal Medicine, leads a 5-year, $3.79M R01 project funded by the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) aims to improve maternal mental health care through a combination of innovative methods with a foundation in social justice focused on centering the experiences of birthing people, families, and front-line professionals.
June 2024
Stephens awardsd division's first JDRF grant
Breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF) has awarded Samuel Stephens, PhD, associate professor in Endocrinology and Metabolism, a three-year research grant totaling up to $750,000 for the project, Role of β-cell Golgi dysfunction in Type 1 diabetes pathogenesis.
May 2024
Nayak presented with AHA early career award
Manasa Nayak, PhD, research assistant professor in Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation, was a finalist for the American Heart Association’s (AHA’s) Kenneth M. Brinkhous Early Career Investigator Prize in Thrombosis.
April 2024
Strouse wins $25K Dorfman Award
April 16, 2024 - Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine Christopher Strouse, MD, received the 2023 Donald D. Dorfman Award for lymphoma research in the amount of $25,000 for his authorship of Long-Term Health-Related Quality of Life of Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Patients and Nontransplant Patients With Aggressive Lymphoma: A Prospective Cohort Analysis.
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