Grants
2022
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) Third and Fourth Year Clinical Fellowship Program: Image biomarkers for automated detection and progression of CF bronchiectasis
Weight Stigma Interest Group - Creating an Equitable and Just Society Community Feasibility Grant ($10,000 funding over 1 year) for "Developing and Testing a Multilevel Approach to Reduce Organizational Weight Stigma".
2022 Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Seed Grant: : Identification of Key Regulators of Atherosclerosis Regression
2021
National Science Foundation I-Corp Iowa Innovator Workshop Grant. “Aptamer Angiogram.” February 2021
2021 Iowa Innovators Workshop Seed Grant: Radiopaque Aptamer Dimers as Next-Generation Contrast Agents
2020
K08 recipient/PI - NIH/NIAID, "Study Of Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Adaptability To Impact Microbial Survival And Host Response Inside Human Neutrophil Phagosomes"
ED Seed Grant, "Mechanisms of Antibiotic-Resistant Lyme Arthritis".
NIH Loan Repayment Program, 2019-2021
2019
T32 - Diabetes Research Training Program. "Genetic Modifiers and Glycemic Variability in Turner syndrome".
Fraternal Order of Eagles Research Grant. “What causes diabetes in Turner syndrome?
American Heart Association (AHA) Young Investigator Database Seed Grant. "Hospital variation in incidence of in-hospital cardiac arrest among Medicare patients".
NIH F32 HD098782, Development and evaluation of a risk-based approach to target vitamin A therapy to prevent bronchopulmonary dysplasia among very low birth weight infants. 7/2019-6/2021
Matthew A Rysavy.
NICHD Neonatal Research Network, 9/2017-8/2022
American Academy of Pediatrics Resident Research Grant. "Understanding the role of steroid use in preterm infants who develop Post Ligation Cardiac Syndrome after surgical closure of Patent Ductus Arteriosus".
Pulmonary T32 Training Grant, “Identification of mechanisms by which the OPA1-UPR-FGF21 axis mediates prevention and reversal of insulin resistance and obesity”, 6/26/19 - present
T32 - Diabetes Research Training Program
Sarah Wernimont.
Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center, University of Iowa, 2018
2018
K08 recipient/PI - NIH/NINDS, "Cortical Mechanisms in Lewy Body Dementia", 2018-2023
T32 trainee - NIH/NIMH, The Iowa Neuroscience Specialty Program in Research Education, "Basolateral Amygdala Circuits in Defensive Behavior Regulation", 2018-2020
R25 trainee - NIH/NINDS Research Education Program for Residents and Fellows in Neurology, 2018-2019
Co-investigator - PPG, NIH/NHLBI, "Origins of Cystic Fibrosis Airway Disease, Project 2", 2018-2023
K01 recipient/PI - NIH/NHLBI, "Heat-Shock protein 90 Modulates Goblet Cell Metaplasia in Human Airway Epithelia", 2018-2023
Co-Director, Animal Models Core - PPG, NIH/NHLBI, "Origins of Cystic Fibrosis Airway Disease, Core A", 2018-2023
PATENT: Peptide Inhibitor of Nox1 NADPH oxidase, US Patent No. US 9,951,102 B2, Apr. 24, 2018
T32 trainee - NIH/NIDDK Diabetes Research Training Program, "Metabolic Control of Placental Development", 2018-2020
2017
K08 recipient/PI - NIH/NHLBI, "Initial Attachment of Bacteria to Mucus Strands in Cystic Fibrosis", 2017-2022
Site PI - NIH/NIDDK, "Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD)", 2017-2021
K12 recipient/PI - NIH/NCI, "Role of DEK-Protoncogene in the Radiation Response and Clinical Outcome for HPV Negative Head and Neck Cancer", 2017-2020
PI - Parker B. Francis Fellowship in Pulmonary Research, "Role of HDAC6 and HSP90 in Airway Goblet Cell Metaplasia", 2017-2020
PI - Alzheimer's Association Clinical Fellowship, "Transcriptomic Changes of Astrocytes in Alzheimer's Disease", 2017-2019
R25 trainee - NIH/NINDS Research Education Program for Residents and Fellows in Neurology, "Investigating the Astrocyte Reaction in Alzheimer's Disease", 2017-2019
PI - University of Iowa Aging Mind and Brain Initiative Pilot Grant, 2017
R25 trainee - NIH/NINDS Research Education Program for Residents and Fellows in Neurology, 2017-2019
2016
PI - Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Pilot and Feasibility Grant, 2016-2018
NIH Loan Repayment Program, 2016-2017
K23 recipient/PI - NIH/NIDDK, "Cognitive and Neuroimaging Correlates of Mild to Moderate Pediatric Chronic Kidney Disease", 2016-2021
K12 recipient/PI - NIH/NICHD, "Cognitive and Neuroimaging in Pediatric Chronic Kidney Disease, 2016
PI - Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Convergence Seed Grant, "Personal Response Profiles: Identifying Cystic Fibrosis Lung Disease Susceptibility Based on Chemical-Induced Gene Expression Signatures", 2016-2019
PI - Cystic Fibrosis Foundation University of Iowa Research Development Program, "Personal Response Profiles and Disease Severity in CF", 2016-2019
2015
K12 recipient/PI - NIH/NICHD, "Mucus Strands in Cystic Fibrosis", 2015-2017
R25 trainee - NIH/NINDS Research Education Program for Residents and Fellows in Neurology, "Inclusion Body Myositis and Hereditary Inclusion Body Myopathy", 2015
T32 trainee - NHLBI Multidisciplinary Lung Research and Career Development Program, 2015-2017
2014
PI - Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Third Year Pediatric Fellowship Award, 2014-2015
T32 trainee - NIH/NIDDK University of Iowa Kidney Disease, Hypertension, and Cell Biology Training Grant, "Academic Achievement Outcomes in Pediatric Chronic Kidney Disease", 2014-2015
NIH Load Repayment Program, 2014-2016
ASTRO Resident/Fellow Research Seed Grant, "Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition as a Therapeutic Target in Prostrate Cancer", 2014-2015
American Heart Association Midwest Affiliate Winter 2012 Predoctoral Fellowship, 12PRE12060526, “Role of Nox1 Phosphorylation in Neointima Formation” , 7/1/2012 – 6/30/14