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Henry Ford + MSU Research Awards

Since achieving recognition in 2023 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a single entity, the partnership’s researchers have secured nearly $50 million in funding.

  • 2024 Awards
    • Mathew Reeves received $4,050 from the University of Alabama at Birmingham for “Advancing the Study of Stroke in Women Through the Integration of Basic, Clinical, and Socioeconomic Perspectives” (09/11/23 – 07/31/24).
    • Kathy Collier received $3,647,960 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke for “Genetic Silencing of Striatal CaV1.3 Calcium Channels as a Potent Antidyskinetic Therapy for PD” (09/30/18 – 05/31/29).
    • Alan Baptist received $952,449 from the National Institute of Nursing Research for “Asthma and Technology in Emerging African American Adults (The ATHENA Project)” (09/01/21 – 05/31/26).
    • Charles Hong received $57,169 from Vanderbilt University for “Mechanism of Wnt signal transduction” (10/01/23 – 03/31/27).
    • Anthony Reffi received $585,968 from the National Institute of Mental Health for “Identifying sleep-related risk factors for PTSD and their underlying mechanisms” (05/15/24 – 04/30/28).
    • Ye Xiong received $2,155,840 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke for “AcSDKP as a novel treatment for traumatic brain injury” (05/01/24 – 02/28/29).
    • Howard Crawford received $3,048,886 from the National Cancer Institute for “Collagen Signaling in Pancreatic Cancer” (05/01/24 – 04/30/29).
    • Evan Reynolds received $745,181 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for “Predicting complications of diabetes with longitudinal metabolic trajectories” (04/08/22 – 03/31/27).
    • Nicholas Kanaan received $431,750 from the National Institute on Aging for “Development and Validation of a Novel Anti-Pathogenic Tau Conformation (TNT2) scFv Immuno-Gene Therapy” (05/01/24 – 04/30/26).
    • Charles Hong received $1,955,792 from the National Heart Lung & Blood Institute for “Mechanistic Insights into The Role of Microtubule Organizing Centers on Cardiomyocyte Structure and Function” (06/01/24 – 05/31/27).
    • Christine Neslund-Dudas received $3,477,551 from the National Cancer Institute for “HFH-MSU CSRN ACCrual Enrollment and Screening Site” (02/01/24 – 12/31/27).
    • Qing-Sheng Mi received $3,135,537 from the National Cancer Institute for “VPS72 controls Treg cell stability and adaptation to tumor microenvironment” (09/19/23 – 08/31/28).
    • Quan Jiang received $3,711,548 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for “Imaging cerebral waste clearance responses during exosome treatment of diabetes” (04/15/24 – 03/31/29).
    • Michelle Pham received $105,058 from the University of Washington for “Caring for BRAIN pioneers: Understanding and enhancing family and researcher support in neural device trials” (06/01/23 – 05/31/24).
    • Lucas Pozzo-Miller received $437,328 from Augusta University for “The Role of CHD7 in ACC neurons” (12/01/23 – 07/31/27).
    • Xianshuang Liu and Linda Mansfield received $2,249,484 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for “Investigating the role of gut extracellular vesicles in diabetic peripheral neuropathy” (03/01/24 – 01/31/28).
    • Charles Hong received $142,027 from the University of Maryland for “GPR68 as a novel modulator of septic lung injury” (08/01/23 – 07/31/24).
    • Susan Buchholz received $180,284 from the University of Texas at El Paso for “Evidence-based intervention to improve walking engagement in El Paso, Texas” (09/15/23 – 03/31/28).
    • Barbara Luke received $593,322 from Baylor College of Medicine for “A US-UK Collaborative Study of the Health of Children Born from In Vitro Fertilization: From Conception Through Young Adulthood” (09/01/23 – 05/31/28).
    • Neera Tewari-Singh received $11,885 from the University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences for “Mast Cell Activation as a Common Mechanism of Pulmonary Toxicity by Chemical Threat Agents” (08/20/23 – 07/31/24).
    • Lucas Pozzo-Miller received $30,988 from Virginia Tech for “TrkB.T1 signaling in astrocytes” (12/01/23 –11/30/25).
    • Bin Gu received $157,000 from the National Cancer Institute for “Developing humanized Nut Carcinoma mouse model for developing NUTM1 targeted therapies” (01/01/24 –12/31/25).
    • Brian Ahmedani received $431,750 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for “Implementation Strategies for Suicide Prevention among Youth in Nepal” (12/01/23 – 11/30/25).
    • Joshua Heyza received $249,566 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for “Molecular regulation of double-strand break repair by MDC1” (12/01/23 – 1/30/25).
  • 2023 Awards
    • Jason Bazil received $61,250 from the University of Nebraska Kearney for “Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex Activation as a Strategy to Ameliorate Metabolic Disease” (09/20/23 – 08/31/26).
    • Jean Kerver and Charles Barone received $7,370,097 from the National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director for “Prenatal Exposures and Child Health Outcomes 2: Increasing ECHO Urban and Rural Diversity” (09/01/23 – 05/31/25).
    • Angela Chen received $401,343 from the National Institute of Nursing Research for “Pilot Testing of a Game-Based Intervention to Promote HPV Vaccination in Families with Unvaccinated Children” (08/16/23 – 07/31/25).
    • Cristian Meghea, Steven Ondersma, Jennifer Johnson, Kent Key, and Jaye Clement received $18,494,512 from the National Institutes of Health for “Maternal Health Multilevel Intervention/s for Racial Equity (MIRACLE) Center” (08/17/23 – 07/31/30).
    • Rebecca Knickmeyer-Santelli received $430,375 from the National Institutes of Health for “Does microbiome composition moderate GI and CNS function in a VPA-induced mouse model of autism?” (09/12/23 – 08/31/25).
    • Michael Boivin received $3,484,376 from the National Institutes of Health for “Congolese mother and child mental health in response to early child development interventions” (12/01/23 – 11/30/28).
    • Joseph Patterson received $49,093 from the University of Michigan for “Characterization and targeting of a novel pathway promoting Parkinson's Disease” (08/15/23 – 07/31/24).
    • Omayma Alshaarawy received $2,859,286 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for “Cannabis use and cardiovascular health outcomes among patients with high blood pressure” (09/15/23 – 07/31/28).
    • Nathan Tykocki and Sara Roccabianca received $2,180,552 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for “Bladder Wall Stiffness Drives Sensation of Fullness” (12/01/23 – 11/30/27).
    • Hongsheng Gui received $314,000 from the National Institutes of Health for “Assembly and re-alignment of HLA genomic region and its implication for fine-mapping suicidality in African descent population” (09/06/23 – 08/31/25).
    • Christine Johnson received $18,393,034 from the National Institutes of Health for “All of Us Research Program Trans-America Consortium of the HCSRN” (09/01/23 –08/31/24).
    • Elizabeth Lockhart received $3,729,442 from the National Institutes of Health for “A Multilevel, Multiphase Optimization Strategy for PrEP: Patients and Providers in Primary Care” (09/22/23 – 03/31/28).
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