Research, Innovation & Impact announces Fall 2024 Core Facilities Pilot Program grant recipients

Sept. 10, 2024
Leslie Hawthorne Klingler, Research Development Services, RII
Grant Recipients

The Office of Research, Innovation & Impact (RII) has announced the Fall 2024 RII Core Facilities Pilot Program (CFPP) grant recipients. The CFPP is a quarterly internal grant supporting research projects averaging $10,000 that use RII's core facilities. 

Faculty may apply for funding to develop new research methods or techniques, gather preliminary data for larger grant proposals or provide technical training to students. Each proposal is evaluated on its scientific value, feasibility and potential to develop new methods that benefit multiple researchers or lead to external grant applications. Proposals offering technical training to students, especially from marginalized groups, are prioritized.

2024 CFPP grant recipients:

  • Tanya Anand, College of Medicine - Tucson, Surgery, "Metabolomic Markers in Endotheliopathy of Trauma in older versus younger trauma patients"
  • Jing-Tzyh Alan Chiang, College of Medicine - Tucson, Medical Imaging, "Evaluation of quantitative and contrast-free MR pulse sequences for imaging breast cancers and nodal metastases"
  • Leigh Combrink, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, "Avian Microbiomes as Biomarkers for Wildlife and Ecosystem Health"
  • Janet Funk, College of Medicine, Medicine - Tucson, "Targeting estrogen receptor signaling to halt ER+ breast cancer progression in bone"
  • Michael Hammer, College of Medicine - Tucson, BIO5, Neurology, "Sex Differences of Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Epilepsy"
  • Nancy Horton, College of Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, "(pending title)"
  • Toshinobu Kazui, College of Medicine - Tucson, Surgery, "Genetic basis of Atrial fibrillation"
  • Anita Koshy, College of Medicine - Tucson, Neurology, "Engineering a clonal Dre Reporter cell line"
  • Tzu Yin Lai, College of Science, Psychology, "Neural basis of metaphor and embodiment"
  • Katherine Rhodes, College of Medicine - Tucson, Immunobiology, "Neisseria community structure and host epithelial interaction"
  • George Sutphin, College of Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, "Automated preparation of custom single-worm culture environments"
  • Noel Warfel, College of Medicine - Tucson, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, "Synthetic lethal screening to target chronic hypoxia"

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