Success Stories
CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES
RECENT PARTICIPANT SUCCESS
NIGMS SCORE-2 AWARD
Morgan Hawker, PhD
California State University Fresno
Three-year award, $140,000 first-year funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to provide insight on controlling the surface properties of implanted medical devices. The goal is to reduce the complications associated with implant material being a poor match to the body’s surrounding biological environment.
NCI P20 AWARD
Simone Heyliger, PhD
Hampton University
Four-year award, $215,239 first-year funding from the National Cancer Institute to establish partnerships and collaboration around genetics and genomics and health disparities to explain population differences in breast and prostate cancer occurrence and outcome.
NIDDK R15 AWARD
Jorge Matias Caviglia, PhD
Brooklyn College
Three-year award, $451,236 first-year funding from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to investigate the function of ABHD5, an essential protein in the pathway of triacylglycerol catabolism. Insight into its function will advance an understanding of obesity and related diseases.
NIGMS SCORE-2 AWARD
Julio Gallego-Delgado, PhD
CUNY - Lehman College
Three-year award, $154,534 first-year funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to present a new strategy for studying malaria-induced acute kidney injury to help advance its diagnoses and treatment.
NIGMS SCORE - 1 AWARD
Maribella Domenech, PhD
University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
Four-year award, $322,645 first-year funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to provide new biological insights into the modulation of tumor cell behavior and therapeutic response via interactions with mesenchymal and immune cells, and support use of multi-cell type models to unravel the complexity of the tumor microenvironment.
NIGMS R35 MIRA AWARD
HyeongJun Kim, PhD
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Five-year award, $363,386 first-year funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to utilize novel single-molecule and biophysical techniques to elucidate how DNA binding proteins function on a molecular level. The purpose is to understand how their malfunctioning leads to various abnormalities such as cancer and changes in chromosome structure.
NIGMS SCORE-2 AWARD
Miguel Mendez, BS
University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla
Three-year award, $118,329 first-year funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to elucidate the link between diabetes and epilepsy by examining downregulation of Kir4.1 channel expression. Findings will improve current knowledge and help identify novel therapeutic agents for this disease.
NIGMS SCORE-2 AWARD
Cecilia Montiel-Nava, PhD
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Three-year award, $111,000 first-year funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to understand the contribution of clinical and demographic predictors of language skills development in autistic school-aged children. Results will inform the standards for language assessment for bilingual Spanish/English-speaking autistic children.
NIMHD PARENT PROJECT AWARD
Dominique Guinn, PhD
Texas Southern University
One-year, $50,000 internal award supported by the National Institute of Minority Health & Health Disparities as part of a parent project. The title of the pilot project is The Roots Study: Understanding Young Adult Barriers to Biomedical Prevention.