April Research Grants & Awards

April 29, 2024

The following research, public service and education/instructional awards were accepted by the MSU Board of Trustees on April 12, 2024.

Submit research grants for the next issue of Med News


Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health

  • Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, MPH, received $10,000,000 from Charles Stewart Mott Foundation for “Rx Kids: A Prenatal and Infant Allowance in Flint, MI” (5/1/2023 to 4/30/2026).
  • Gayle Shipp, PhD, received $259,882 from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for “Increasing evidence around Innovative Maternity Care Model in Flint, Michigan” (2/15/2024 to 2/14/2026).
  • Heatherlun Uphold, PhD, received $241,997 from Greater Flint Health Coalition for “Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH)” (9/30/2023 to 9/29/2028).
  • Maji Debena, PhD, received $239,996 from National Inst of Health for “MOthers' AdvocateS In the Community for Mothers with Experience of intimate partner violence” (9/1/2021 to 8/31/2024).
  • Jennifer Johnson, PhD, received $225,643 from George Mason University for “Evaluation of Stepping Up Efforts to Improve MH Services and Justice Utilization” (9/3/2019 to 7/31/2024).
  • Kent Key, PhD, MPH, received $112,110 from National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities for “Family Health Histories: Creating a culturally tailored tool to reduce health disparities in the African American Community” (5/1/2021 to 1/31/2026).
  • Karren Campbell, PhD, received $60,000 from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation for “Program Evaluation and Port-Huron Implementation Trial (PEPI) for SUD Pregnant and Postpartum Women” (12/1/2023 to 11/30/2025).
  • Steven Ondersma, PhD, received $54,078 from National Institute of Health for “Accelerating collaborative, cumulative, and open intervention science with an e-intervention authoring platform” (8/16/2020 to 12/31/2024).
  • Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, MPH, received $50,000 from Children’s Foundation for “Rx Kids: Prenatal and Infant Allowances in Flint, MI” (1/1/2024 to 12/31/2024).
  • Todd Lucas, PhD, received $50,000 from American Cancer Society Inc for “Choice, Implementation Intentions, and At-home Colorectal Cancer Screening” (7/1/2021 to 6/30/2026).
  • Eric Finegood, PhD, received $25,000 from Community Foundation of Greater Flint for “Video Interaction Project” (3/1/2024 to 8/31/2024).
  • Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, MPH, received $25,000 from Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation for “Rx Kids: Prenatal and Infant Allowances in Flint, MI” (1/1/2024 to 10/31/2024).
  • Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, MPH, received $15,000 from Community Foundation of Greater Flint for “Rx Kids: Prenatal and Infant Allowances in Flint, MI” (12/1/2023 to 11/30/2025).

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

  • Honglei Chen, MD, PhD, received $500,773 from National Institute of Health for “Poor sense of smell and the health of older adults” (6/15/2022 to 2/28/2027).
  • Mathew Reeves, PhD, received $59,381 from Massachusetts General Hospital for “Addressing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Stroke Care Access Using Hospital Transfer Networks” (9/1/2023 to 4/30/2028).
  • Dorothy Pathak, PhD, received $25,000 from Henry Ford Health System-Michigan State University Health Sciences for “Epigenetic effects of acculturation on increased breast cancer risk among Polish immigrant women to the U.S.” (10/1/2023 to 9/30/2024).
  • Jean Kerver, PhD, received $23,884 from Munson Healthcare for “Rural Communities Opioid Response Program - Medication Assisted Treatment Access” (9/1/2023 to 8/31/2024).
  • Gayle Shipp, PhD, received $7,997 from Michigan Council for Maternal & Child Health for “Collaborative support and training of Birth Equity and Maternal Health Policy Specialist” (1/1/2023 to 6/30/2024).

Family Medicine

  • Bengt Arnetz, MD, PhD, received $50,000 from Michigan State Police for “Crisis Response and Intervention Training” (4/1/2023 to 9/30/2025).

Human Medicine Dean

  • Joan Ilardo, PhD, received $41,698 from Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness for “Improving Health and Housing Outcomes for Older Adults in Oakland County” (12/18/2023 to 11/30/2024).

Institute for Quantitative Health

  • Joshua Heyza, PhD, received $125,000 from National Institute of Health for “Molecular regulation of double-strand break repair by MDC1” (12/1/2023 to 11/30/2025).

Medical Education Research and Development

  • Chi Chang, PhD, received $52,217 from US Department of Veterans Affairs for “Battle Creek VA Medical Center IPA agreement with Chi Chang (2023-2024)” (11/1/2023 to 9/30/2024).

Neurology and Ophthalmology

  • Rajeel Imran, MD, received $13,260 from Janssen Research & Development LLC for “Janssen_Librexia protocol 70033093STR3001” (10/4/2023 to 12/31/2027).

Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

  • Asgerally Fazleabas, PhD, received $492,304 from National Institute of Child Health & Human Development for “Regulation of Endometriotic Lesion Development by NOTCH1” (4/1/2021 to 2/28/2026).
  • Madhavi Kulkarni, PhD, received $312,998 from US Department of the Army for “A Longitudinal study of the epidemiology of endometriosis after menopause” (8/15/2024 to 8/14/2026).
  • Asgerally Fazleabas, PhD, received $216,773 from Comanche Biopharma Corp for “S-Flt siRNA Therapy for Pre-eclampsia” (4/5/2022 to 8/31/2024).
  • Barbara Luke, ScD, MPH, received $119,607 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” (9/1/2023 to 5/31/2028).
  • Stacey Missmer, ScD, received $96,380 from Boston Children’s Hospital for “The Boston Center for Endometriosis / Women's Health Study: from Adolescence to Adulthood” (1/1/2022 to 12/31/2024).
  • Ripla Arora, PhD, received $45,703 from University of Missouri for “The role of cholesterol biosynthesis in metastatic and recurrent endometrial cancer” (9/23/2022 to 1/31/2027).

Pediatrics and Human Development

  • Andre Bachmann, PhD, received $611,302 from National Institute of Health for “Leveraging modulation of polyamine metabolism for therapeutic advantage in genetic disorders” (2/1/2023 to 1/31/2028).
  • Jeffrey MacKeigan, PhD, received $120,067 from Spectrum Health - MSU Alliance Corp for “ALPHA vs. BETA: A Preclinical Study of Astatine-211-Labeled and Lutetium-177-Labeled Brentuximab Vedotin in the Treatment of Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma” (2/28/2024 to 8/27/2025).
  • Robert Vaughan, PhD, received $103,474 from National Cancer Institute for “Characterizing genetic modifiers in tumor burden of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex” (3/1/2021 to 2/28/2025).
  • Jeffrey MacKeigan, PhD, received $90,000 from Corewell Health for “Novel CD30 Radiopharmaceutical Development” (11/29/2023 to 7/31/2025).
  • Jane Turner, MD, received $64,000 from Wayne State University for “Michigan Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disabilities (MI-LEND)” (7/1/2023 to 6/30/2024).
  • Ryan Thomas, MD, received $33,116 from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for “Program for Adult Care Excellence (PACE)” (10/1/2023 to 9/30/2026).
  • Bin Chen, PhD, received $21,846 from Henry Ford Health System Michigan State University Health Sciences for “Interrogating the phenotype and function of T cells in pancreatic cancer liver metastases” (1/1/2024 to 12/31/2024).
  • Lucas Pozzo-Miller, PhD, received $15,494 from Virginia Tech for “T1 signaling in astrocytes” (12/1/2023 to 11/30/2025).
  • Jane Turner, MD, received $5,248 from University of Michigan for “Training New Leaders in Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics” (7/1/2023 to 6/30/2024).

Pharmacology and Toxicology

  • Jamie Bernard, PhD, received $11,958 from University of Michigan for “Obesity, body fat distribution, and breast cancer risk: is visceral fat the culprit after menopause?” (2/1/2023 to 1/31/2028).
  • Jamie Bernard, PhD, received $10,000 from Society of Toxicology for “Adiposity Promotes Breast Cancer through Kynurenine-induced Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Activity: Implications for Environmental AhR Agonists on Tumor Formation” (1/18/2024 to 5/30/2025).

Psychiatry

  • Brian Ahmedani, PhD, received $431,750 from National Institute of Health for “Implementation Strategies for Suicide Prevention among Youth in Nepal” (12/1/2023 to 11/30/2025).

Radiology

  • Morteza Mahmoudi, PhD, received $366,318 from National Institute of Health for “A Nanostructured Skin Patch to Heal Chronic Wounds” (2/1/2022 to 1/31/2027).
  • Ming Chen, PhD, received $37,500 from Henry Ford Health System Michigan State University Health Sciences for “Targeting miR-10b to Induce PTEN Expression: A Novel Therapeutic Strategy for PTEN-deficient GBM” (1/1/2024 to 12/31/2024).
  • Norman Scheel, PhD, received $11,921 from University of Michigan for “Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center-Supplement” (7/1/2023 to 6/30/2025).

Translational Neuroscience

  • Nicholas Kanaan, PhD, received $474,327 from National Institute of Health for “Tau-Mediated Regulation and Dysregulation of Protein Phosphatase 1” (4/1/2020 to 12/31/2024).

 

Archives

See research grants from 2023.