PROVIDENCE – Seventeen Rhode Island medical research projects will share nearly $400,000 in seed funding from the Rhode Island Foundation, the organization announced Tuesday.
Together with a review panel made up of scientists and physicians, the Rhode Island Foundation selected the grant recipients with the intent to help emerging local researchers advance projects to the point where they could be contenders for national funding.
Among the winners is Bradley Hospital, which received $25,000 for a project that will study the correlation between sleep habits and brain development in children with ADHD, and the University of Rhode Island, who’s researchers won a total of over $146,000 for projects aimed at preventing, detecting, and treating a range of ailments, including opioid disorders, lung cancer and diabetes. Other recipient organizations include Miriam Hospital, Rhode Island Hospital, Rhode Island College, and the Ocean State Research Institute.
“Thanks to the commitment of our generous donors, local researchers working to achieve medical advances have a crucial source of seed funding,” said Neil D. Steinberg, the Foundation’s president and CEO. “Our hope is that their successes will lead to healthier lives as well as a healthier economy.”
The following projects also received funding:
- Brown University was awarded $25,000 for “Evaluation of Vaccine Potential for Five Malaria Antigens Identified in Disease Resistant Children,” led by Dipak K Raj
- The Ocean State Research Institute was awarded $25,000 for “Post Hospital Community Pharmacist Medication Therapy Management for Heart Failure,” led by Lisa B Cohen
- Rhode Island Hospital was awarded $25,000 for “Chemotherapy Effects on Acute Myeloid Leukemia Extracellular Vesicles,” led by John Reagan
- Rhode Island Hospital was awarded $25,000 for “Role of Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter for Heart Failure Development,” led by Jin O-Uchi
- Rhode Island Hospital was awarded $25,000 for “Comprehensive Treatment for Childhood Adolescent Drug Resistant Tuberculous,” led by Silvia S. Chiang
- Rhode Island Hospital was awarded $25,000 for “The Placental Microbiome and its Relationship to Fetal Growth,” led by Emily A. McDonald
- The University of Rhode Island was awarded $25,000 for “Metamaterials-based Near-field Biosensing for Early Detection of Lung Cancer,” led by Yi Zheng
- The University of Rhode Island was awarded $25,000 for “Engineer Extracellular Vesicles for Vaccination & Immunotherapy against Cancer,” led by Yuan Zhang
- The University of Rhode Island was awarded $25,000 for “Regulation of Transcription by Mutant Swi/Snf Complexes,” led by Arnob Dutta
- The University of Rhode Island was awarded $25,000 for “A Carbon Nanotube Reporter to Quantify the Permeability of Tumor Spheroid Models,” led by Daniel Roxbury
- Miriam Hospital was awarded $24,914 for “Proactive Tobacco Treatment in a Medicaid Health Home,” led by Sandra J. Japuntich,
- The University of Rhode Island was awarded $22,788 for “Identifying Bacterial Species in the Serum Microbiota of Type II Diabetics,” led by Matthew Ramsey
- Rhode Island College was awarded $20,566 for “DNA Polymerase Theta and its Potential Role in Cancer,” led by Jamie Towle-Weicksel
- Rhode Island Hospital was awarded $18,414 for “LITAF, A Novel Regulator of Cardiac Excitation,” led by Karni S. Moshal
- Rhode Island Hospital was awarded $12,500 for “Real-time Gene Expression Detection in Live Animals for Osteoarthritis Diagnosis,” led by Hongchuan
Liz Lee is a PBN contributing writer.
