Tetrad Awards Announced
March 6, 2024
The MSU Office of Research and Innovation has announced the awardees for the inaugural Tetrad interdisciplinary research funding program.
Good news! Of the 40 research awards, College of Human Medicine faculty are involved in 58% of the projects and represent about 28% of the total MSU faculty involved in these projects.
The Tetrad Initiative, launched in Fall 2023, was designed to foster new cross-unit and cross-college collaborations among faculty who have not worked together before, resulting in projects that create opportunities for extramural support of unique research programs. Researchers, at any rank, found collaborators from outside of their own unit to form a team of three investigators and completed the application process in January 2024.
The program received strong demand and due to the number of applications, a lottery system was used to select the awards.
College of Human Medicine faculty appointments are in bold text.
| Title | Principal Investigators |
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| Art as Medicine: Creativity and Health Humanities during Covid-19 |
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| Assessment of a common CFC syndrome mouse model to uncover biological underpinnings of autism |
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| Creation of a humanized liver transporter mouse model |
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| Developing a Comprehensive Risk Stratification Model of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections that Integrates Clinical Data with Quantitative Computer Vision Analysis and Machine Learning: A Pilot Project |
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| Electrical and optical monitoring and manipulation of neuronal activity followed by AI-assisted data analyses: application to autism mouse models |
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| Environmental Justice in the Workplace |
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| Establishing a novel zebrafish model for Alzheimer’s disease drug discovery |
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| Examining the role of affect on language processing in young typically developing children and children with a confirmed diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder |
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| Hepatic OATPs as an imaging reporter protein for gene therapy |
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| Identify key terms in history gathering and physical examination based on a standard format for structuring medical notes: Subjective-Objective-Assessment-Plan notes using Large Language Models |
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| Impact of Air Pollution and Social Determinants of Health on Older African American Cognitive Health in Rural Louisiana |
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| Impaired microglial efferocytosis of Lewy body-containing neurons: Implications for Parkinson’s disease |
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| Metabolomic and Metallomic Analysis of Human Heart Organoid Development |
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| Mitigating the debilitating effects of chemotherapy with a prune-rich diet |
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| MRI detection of tumors using novel anti-ZIP4 monoclonal antibodies |
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| Novel links between early changes in blood clotting factors and acetaminophen overdose-induced liver damage |
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| Pathways to Health, Mental Health, and Financial Well-being: Interdisciplinary Partnerships to Understand the Interactive Roles of Family Processes and Economic Factors in the Context of Structural Inequality |
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| Patient Derived Xenograft Models for Development of New Methods for Pancreatic Cancer Imaging and Treatment |
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| Physiological and pathological targeting of a DNA mutator in B lymphocytes |
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| Risk Modeling for Older Drivers: Applying Edge AI and IoT in Cognition-aware, Continuous Driving Skill Analysis |
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| Role of Zinc in sperm motility and function |
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| Sauna Therapy for Black Americans with High Blood Pressure |
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| Understanding gene-environment interactions in neurodevelopment using a global, multicohort study |
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