The University of Toledo\u2019s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs recently announced its University Research Funding Opportunities awards for Spring 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cURFO funding is vital for UToledo faculty to make progress on research projects. The return, whether measured in publications or external grants, is very high,\u201d said Eva English, UToledo\u2019s director of grants development in the Department of Research and Sponsored Programs. \u201cWe are continually impressed by the high quality of research and scholarship submitted each year. The Research Council works hard to make difficult selections from the many worthwhile proposals submitted.\u201d<\/p>\n
The research grants awarded are:<\/p>\n
Interdisciplinary Research Initiation, $81,000<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Dr. Robert Smith, professor and chair for the Department of Neurosciences, \u201cKinome Array Screening of Novel Hybrid PI3Ka\/CDK7 Leads.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Dr. David Bazett-Jones, associate professor and program director for athletic training post-professional program, \u201cRole of explicit and implicit expectations in the efficacy of musculoskeletal rehabilitation.\u201d<\/p>\n Research Innovation Program, $143,980<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Dr. Mohammad Elahinia, professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and newly appointed interim dean of the College of Engineering, \u201c3D Printing of Self-Expanding Stents: Model-Informed Design, Hemodynamics, and Fabrication.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Dr. Guofa Liu, professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, \u201cMiR-219a functions as a molecular switch to control spinal cord commissural axon guidance.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Dr. Robert Blumenthal, professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, \u201cIdentifying Ortholog-Specific Inhibitors of Adenosylmethionine Synthetase.\u201d<\/p>\n Research Awards and Fellowships, \u00a0$110,068<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Dr. Cin Cin Tan, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, \u201cThe Role of Repetitive Exposure in Modifying Food Acceptance Among Emerging Adults: A Study of Picky Eaters.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Dr. Jennifer Stevens, assistant professor in the Department of Marketing and International Business, \u201cThe New Wave of Service Workers: An Investigation of Gig Worker Benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Dr. Jami Taylor, professor for the Department of Political Science and Public Administration and director of master of public administration, \u201cPublic Opinion on Transgender Rights 2015-2024.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Dr. Joey Kim, assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, \u201cThe Racialized Woman in Romanticism.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Deborah Orloff, professor and associate chair in the Department of Art, \u201cElusive Memory: Lost Histories.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Dr. Ala Qattawi, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, \u201cMaterial-By-Design Enabled by Additive Manufacturing: LPBF Sandwich Structure for Nickel Super Alloys and Refractory Metal for High Temperature and Strength Applications.\u201d<\/p>\n DeArce-Koch Memorial Fund for Medical Research, $95,200<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Dr. Heather Conti, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, \u201c The immunological properties of newly discovered oral megakaryocytes.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Dr. Terry Bigioni, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry \u201cMolecular Silver clusters as Penetrating Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobials.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Dr. Song-Tao Liu, professor and chair for the Department of Biological Sciences, \u201cPhenotypic Plasticity of Breast Cancer Cells in response to MCL1 inhibitors.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Dr. Mahasin Osman, associate professor in the Department of Medicine, \u201cProbing the Molecular Determinants of Chemotherapy-induced Kidney Damage.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The internal grants program advances the scholarly work of UToledo faculty members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,60,32,34,61,38,39,1,3,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86507,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86506\/revisions\/86507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}