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This expansion has been markedly accelerated during the COVID pandemic in 2 ways: 1) NIRC has supported the testing of no less than 12 COVID vaccines including the Pfizer-BioNTech as well as monitored the distribution and pharmacokinetics of convalescent antibodies via dynamic PET/CT imaging. 2) Owing to fact that many labs were closed across US institutions during 2020, NIRC scientists ensured that ongoing nonhuman primate experiments could be continued to avoid wasting precious resources. The expansion of NIRC’s in house HIV/AIDS research program is currently limited by the lack of additional research laboratory space to house new hires and their teams, with several candidates interested in joining NIRC and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, which in December 2021 obtained the coveted R1 status by the Carnegie Commission on Institutions of Higher Education. In preparation of such laboratory expansion, NIRC has completed the demolition of the third floor of Building 29 (~9100 sq ft) along with complete and certified asbestos removal. This space will be ideal to house up to 6 research teams in a combination of open shared as well as separate laboratory spaces, complete with offices, cubicles and a conference room. NIRC supports many onsite and collaborative programs on using nonhuman primates on various metabolic and infectious diseases, most notably HIV lentiviral pathogenesis supported by state of the art imaging capabilities including a whole body to single cell analysis approach, therapeutic approaches aimed at curing HIV, and an extensive program to prevent mucosal viral acquisition via protective experimental vaccines, vaginal and colorectal microbicides. In addition, NIRC has been a key contributor to the fight against COVID-19. The latter pandemic has severely depleted the supply of research macaques and NIRC has been expanding its colonies via the breeding and the transfer of new programs such as the NIAID funded SVEU breeding program. In addition to over 6500 Indian origin rhesus macaques, NIRC is breeding and using Mauritian cynomolgus macaques and African green monkeys as well as a few pigtailed macaques. This NHP program is largely supported by a state-of-the-art onsite clinical laboratory, expert veterinary care and equipment. NIRC has also established an expandable rodent vivarium in the support of research and is planning to build a BSL-3 facility complete with laboratories, rodent and monkey housing. The addition of research laboratories at NIRC will markedly enhance the ability of the Center to assemble a critical mass of scientists focused on HIV research, expanding the breath of the research program fully supported by NHP models, and compete for external funding.", "keywords": [ "AIDS/HIV problem", "African Green Monkey", "Animals", "Antibodies", "Asbestos", "Breeding", "COVID-19", "COVID-19 pandemic", "Caring", "Clinical", "Colorectal", "Communicable Diseases", "Drug Kinetics", "Ensure", "Equipment", "Excision", "Expenditure", "Floor", "Funding", "Growth", "HIV", "Housing", "Institution", "Laboratories", "Laboratory Research", "Louisiana", "Macaca", "Macaca fascicularis", "Macaca mulatta", "Macaca nemestrina", "Metabolic Diseases", "Modeling", "Monitor", "Monkeys", "Mucous Membrane", "National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease", "PET/CT scan", "Pathogenesis", "Preparation", "Research", "Research Support", "Resources", "Rodent", "Scientist", "Site", "Testing", "Therapeutic", "Universities", "Vaccines", "Vagina", "Viral", "X-Ray Computed Tomography", "biosafety level 3 facility", "building renovation", "coronavirus disease", "experimental study", "fight against", "higher education", "imaging capabilities", "interest", "microbicide", "nonhuman primate", "pandemic disease", "prevent", "programs", "single cell analysis", "symposium", "wasting" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "10088", "attributes": { "award_id": "2218973", "title": "“Puerto Rican Higher Education Researchers Association, Thriving not just Surviving (HEARTS) conference", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Education and Human Resources (EHR)", "HSI-Hispanic Serving Instituti" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 2964, "first_name": "Sonja", "last_name": "Montas-Hunter", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2022-08-15", "end_date": "2024-07-31", "award_amount": 34314, "principal_investigator": { "id": 25980, "first_name": "Kelly", "last_name": "Mack", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1883, "ror": "https://ror.org/015t7hs32", "name": "Association of American Colleges and Universities", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "DC", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this conference aims to support faculty in Puerto Rico so that they can impact the retention and graduation rates of Hispanic students through implementing best practices and improving faculty wellness, resulting in improved student/faculty engagement and faculty grant-writing skills. Puerto Rican faculty are in urgent need of physical, emotional, pedagogical, and financial support so that they can refresh, rejuvenate, and adapt to transition from surviving to thriving in this pandemic-fueled “new normal.” The Puerto Rican Higher Education Researchers Association, Thriving not just Surviving (HEARTS) Conference will provide this support for faculty to heal, learn, share and grow to better support Hispanic STEM students and the HSIs of Puerto Rico. The conference will bring together faculty in higher education research programs from across the island. The conference will address topics of wellness, grant-writing support, best practices for virtual and/or hybrid learning (especially in STEM) and culturally competent pedagogy. These four topics, combined into one event, will offer holistic support for the faculty that are on the frontlines of the implementation of education research programming that seeks to improve outcomes for Hispanic students in STEM and broadly in higher education in Puerto Rico. Faculty will be better equipped to meet the challenges of this “new normal” if they are supported by each other, focused on their own wellness, trained for writing competitive grants, and trained in best practices for hybrid and/or virtual STEM instruction in a culturally supportive environment to promote the success of Hispanic STEM students.\n\nThe design and analysis of this mixed-methods evaluative research study are based on Kezar’s (2013) framework of organizational learning through “sensemaking.” The project will help faculty “make sense” of their value and how they require personal wellness and stronger communities to be effective. Participants in the conference will learn about successful capacity-building efforts of other STEM faculty and administrators which resulted in student success. The conference will address the topics of (1) faculty wellness, (2) creating communities through sustained dialogues, (3) grant-writing, and (4) culturally responsive pedagogies. The main goals are to (1) equip HSI faculty from PR to meet the challenges of today’s “new normal” by focusing on their own wellness; (2) create a sustained dialogue on the importance of collaboration among HSIs in Puerto Rico and in the US; (3) empower faculty to use best practices for Hispanic students to promote the success and (4) receive training for competitive grant-writing (to secure funds to support their work). The conference activities will generate evidence of faculty improved faculty wellbeing, sense of belonging, self-efficacy in grant-writing, and implementation of best practices in the classroom to support STEM students. This evidence will be used to seek additional funding to support yearly iterations of the conference with the long-term goal of forming a self-sustaining education research association on the island that will foster long-term excellence in higher education research for HSIs in Puerto Rico as well as collaborations with the US mainland to promote education research that builds capacity for student success. The HSI Program aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs. Projects supported by the HSI Program will also generate new knowledge on how to achieve these aims.\n\nThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "8343", "attributes": { "award_id": "1R01MH126468-01", "title": "“Overlapping and Discrete Pathways Through Which Prenatal Isolation and Uncertainty Stress Impact Maternal Mental Health and Child Neurodevelopment", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 6363, "first_name": "Julia L", "last_name": "Zehr", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-05-15", "end_date": "2025-03-31", "award_amount": 871099, "principal_investigator": { "id": 22463, "first_name": "Natalie Hiromi", "last_name": "Brito", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 167, "ror": "https://ror.org/0190ak572", "name": "New York University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 20865, "first_name": "Moriah E", "last_name": "Thomason", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 832, "ror": "", "name": "NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The prenatal period is regarded as one of the most sensitive phases in human development. Events that occur during gestation can alter the course of development with lasting impact. Presently, the COVID-19 pandemic is exerting wide-spread impact on the lives of expectant mothers around the world. Particularly salient pandemic- related stressors that are being experienced by pregnant women are social isolation and uncertainty stress. There is ample physiological and behavioral literature showing that social isolation and uncertainty stress affect typical human and animal psychobiological functioning, but there is an absence of knowledge about how these conditions might impact the physical and psychological health of a pregnant woman, and what the consequences of those changes might be for her developing child. The central objective of this proposal is to build foundational knowledge about the effects of prenatal social isolation and uncertainty stress on maternal psychobiology and infant neurobehavior. We will explore several candidate physiological systems in the mother to elucidate mechanisms that underlie associations between maternal stressors and child outcomes. To achieve these goals, we will recruit 200 women from a large New York City cohort established at the height of the pandemic into a prospective, longitudinal study that will include pre- and postnatal biospecimen collection and child neurobehavioral assessments at 6-, 12- and 24 months. Multi-modal neuroimaging strategies, including infant EEG and quantitative MRI, and innovative remote biophysical data collection strategies will be employed. The primary aims of this project are to (i) examine the impact of prenatal social isolation and uncertainty stress on maternal biology and postnatal mental health; (ii) evaluate the influence of maternal prenatal social isolation and uncertainty stress on infant neurobehavioral development; and (iii) examine the role of prenatal social isolation and uncertainty stress on mother-infant bi-directional interactions. We will thus be able to meaningfully evaluate whether, and how, prenatal social isolation and uncertainty stress modify maternal biology and affect, and the neurobehavioral consequences of those impacts on infants. Such work would constitute a substantial advance in our understanding of the longitudinal effects of prenatal psychosocial stress exposures, the underlying mechanistic pathways, and the origins of child neurobehavioral disorders.", "keywords": [ "Address", "Affect", "Age", "Allopregnanolone", "Animals", "Architecture", "Area", "Attention", "Award", "Behavior", "Behavior assessment", "Behavioral", "Bioenergetics", "Biological", "Biology", "Biophysics", "Brain", "COVID-19", "COVID-19 pandemic", "Child", "Child Development", "Collection", "Communicable Diseases", "Data Collection", "Development", "Diffusion", "Disasters", "Economics", "Electrocardiogram", "Electroencephalogram", "Endocrine", "Enrollment", "Environment", "Etiology", "Event", "Fatty Acids", "Fiber", "Foundations", "Glucose", "Goals", "Health", "Height", "Home environment", "Hormonal", "Hour", "Human", "Human Development", "Hydrocortisone", "Infant", "Inflammation", "Inflammatory", "Investigation", "Knowledge", "Learning", "Leptin", "Life", "Literature", "Longitudinal Studies", "Magnetic Resonance Imaging", "Measures", "Medical", "Mental Health", "Modality", "Morbidity - disease rate", "Mothers", "Movement", "Myelin", "Neurocognitive", "New York City", "Outcome", "Parents", "Pathway interactions", "Perinatal", "Phase", "Physiological", "Play", "Postpartum Depression", "Postpartum Period", "Pregnancy", "Pregnant Women", "Prevalence", "Psychopathology", "Psychosocial Stress", "Questionnaires", "Relaxation", "Research", "Risk", "Role", "Sinus Arrhythmia", "Social Environment", "Social isolation", "Societies", "Stress", "Sum", "Supervision", "Surveys", "System", "Testing", "Time", "Uncertainty", "United States National Institutes of Health", "Variant", "Woman", "Work", "arm", "awake", "base", "care providers", "cohort", "course development", "experience", "family support", "follow-up", "imaging approach", "innovation", "machine learning algorithm", "multimodality", "neurobehavior", "neurobehavioral", "neurobehavioral disorder", "neurodevelopment", "neuroimaging", "new technology", "offspring", "pandemic disease", "physical conditioning", "postnatal", "preclinical study", "pregnant", "prenatal", "prospective", "psychobiologic", "psychobiology", "psychologic", "public health relevance", "recruit", "remote sensing", "respiratory", "response", "restraint", "sensor technology", "serial imaging", "sound", "stressor", "tool" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "8342", "attributes": { "award_id": "5R01MH126468-02", "title": "“Overlapping and Discrete Pathways Through Which Prenatal Isolation and Uncertainty Stress Impact Maternal Mental Health and Child Neurodevelopment", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 6363, "first_name": "Julia L", "last_name": "Zehr", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-05-15", "end_date": "2025-03-31", "award_amount": 765608, "principal_investigator": { "id": 22463, "first_name": "Natalie Hiromi", "last_name": "Brito", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 167, "ror": "https://ror.org/0190ak572", "name": "New York University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 20865, "first_name": "Moriah E", "last_name": "Thomason", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 832, "ror": "", "name": "NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NY", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The prenatal period is regarded as one of the most sensitive phases in human development. Events that occur during gestation can alter the course of development with lasting impact. Presently, the COVID-19 pandemic is exerting wide-spread impact on the lives of expectant mothers around the world. Particularly salient pandemic- related stressors that are being experienced by pregnant women are social isolation and uncertainty stress. There is ample physiological and behavioral literature showing that social isolation and uncertainty stress affect typical human and animal psychobiological functioning, but there is an absence of knowledge about how these conditions might impact the physical and psychological health of a pregnant woman, and what the consequences of those changes might be for her developing child. The central objective of this proposal is to build foundational knowledge about the effects of prenatal social isolation and uncertainty stress on maternal psychobiology and infant neurobehavior. We will explore several candidate physiological systems in the mother to elucidate mechanisms that underlie associations between maternal stressors and child outcomes. To achieve these goals, we will recruit 200 women from a large New York City cohort established at the height of the pandemic into a prospective, longitudinal study that will include pre- and postnatal biospecimen collection and child neurobehavioral assessments at 6-, 12- and 24 months. Multi-modal neuroimaging strategies, including infant EEG and quantitative MRI, and innovative remote biophysical data collection strategies will be employed. The primary aims of this project are to (i) examine the impact of prenatal social isolation and uncertainty stress on maternal biology and postnatal mental health; (ii) evaluate the influence of maternal prenatal social isolation and uncertainty stress on infant neurobehavioral development; and (iii) examine the role of prenatal social isolation and uncertainty stress on mother-infant bi-directional interactions. We will thus be able to meaningfully evaluate whether, and how, prenatal social isolation and uncertainty stress modify maternal biology and affect, and the neurobehavioral consequences of those impacts on infants. Such work would constitute a substantial advance in our understanding of the longitudinal effects of prenatal psychosocial stress exposures, the underlying mechanistic pathways, and the origins of child neurobehavioral disorders.", "keywords": [ "Address", "Affect", "Age", "Allopregnanolone", "Animals", "Architecture", "Area", "Attention", "Award", "Behavior", "Behavior assessment", "Behavioral", "Bioenergetics", "Biological", "Biology", "Biophysics", "Brain", "COVID-19", "COVID-19 pandemic", "Child", "Child Development", "Collection", "Communicable Diseases", "Data Collection", "Development", "Diffusion", "Disasters", "Economics", "Electrocardiogram", "Electroencephalogram", "Endocrine", "Enrollment", "Environment", "Etiology", "Event", "Fatty Acids", "Fiber", "Foundations", "Glucose", "Goals", "Health", "Height", "Home environment", "Hormonal", "Hour", "Human", "Human Development", "Hydrocortisone", "Infant", "Inflammation", "Inflammatory", "Investigation", "Knowledge", "Learning", "Leptin", "Life", "Literature", "Longitudinal Studies", "Magnetic Resonance Imaging", "Measures", "Medical", "Mental Health", "Modality", "Morbidity - disease rate", "Mothers", "Movement", "Myelin", "Neurocognitive", "New York City", "Outcome", "Parents", "Pathway interactions", "Perinatal", "Persons", "Phase", "Physiological", "Play", "Postpartum Depression", "Postpartum Period", "Pregnancy", "Pregnant Women", "Prevalence", "Psychopathology", "Psychosocial Stress", "Questionnaires", "Relaxation", "Research", "Risk", "Role", "Sinus Arrhythmia", "Social Environment", "Social isolation", "Societies", "Stress", "Sum", "Supervision", "Surveys", "System", "Testing", "Time", "Uncertainty", "United States National Institutes of Health", "Variant", "Woman", "Work", "arm", "awake", "base", "care providers", "cohort", "course development", "experience", "family support", "follow-up", "imaging approach", "innovation", "machine learning algorithm", "multimodality", "neurobehavior", "neurobehavioral", "neurobehavioral disorder", "neurodevelopment", "neuroimaging", "new technology", "offspring", "pandemic disease", "physical conditioning", "postnatal", "preclinical study", "pregnant", "prenatal", "prospective", "psychobiologic", "psychobiology", "psychologic", "public health relevance", "recruit", "remote sensing", "respiratory", "response", "restraint", "sensor technology", "serial imaging", "sound", "stressor", "tool" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "15182", "attributes": { "award_id": "1R01GM155729-01", "title": "Zwitterionic polyethylene glycol for therapeutic delivery", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 31602, "first_name": "Sailaja", "last_name": "Koduri", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2024-09-05", "end_date": "2026-06-30", "award_amount": 318457, "principal_investigator": { "id": 27922, "first_name": "Hao", "last_name": "Cheng", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 377, "ror": "https://ror.org/04bdffz58", "name": "Drexel University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Biologic drugs and nanomedicines with conjugated polyethylene glycol (PEG) show extended circulation in the blood, increasing therapeutic efficacy. The U.S. FDA has approved more than 30 PEGylated biologics, including proteins, nucleotides, and peptides, and a few PEGylated nanomedicines, for example COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. Attached PEG chains increase the hydrodynamic radiuses of these therapeutics to reduce their renal clearance during blood circulation. More importantly, PEG conceals therapeutics from immune cells by repelling plasma proteins, rendering therapeutics stealth behavior. The adsorption of a few types of plasma proteins onto therapeutics can lead to the removal of therapeutics by immune cells. PEG chains are hydrophilic and flexible. They can repel plasma proteins through a thermodynamic-driven entropic repulsion. Despite the unique advantage, the application of PEGylated therapeutics is limited by the presence of anti-PEG antibodies (aPEG Abs). These antibodies not only accelerate the clearance of PEGylated therapeutics and attenuate their efficacies but may also cause severe side effects. Varied percentages of populations were found to have pre- existing aPEG Abs in different studies, with the percentage as high as 40%. The high prevalence is likely due to the broad use of PEG in cosmetic and healthcare products. To further improve the pharmacokinetics of therapeutics and circumvent the problem of aPEG Abs, researchers have strived to find PEG alternatives. Among these alternative polymers, zwitterionic polymers have attracted the most attention. In contrast to PEG, zwitterionic polymers repel protein adsorption by forming a hydration layer around the polymers. We hypothesize that zwitterionic PEG (ZPEG) that combines the advantageous characteristics of both PEG and conventional zwitterionic polymers will be superior to them in extending the circulation of therapeutics and minimize the generation of anti-ZPEG antibodies. To develop a ZPEG to replace PEG for therapeutic delivery, we propose the following research plans: 1) synthesize and characterize ZPEG with different chemical structures and reveal the mechanism of enhanced blood circulation of ZPEG-modified proteins; 2) investigate the immunogenicity of ZPEG; 3) investigate the pharmacokinetics and immune responses of nanoparticles covered with ZPEG. Because of the broad application of PEG, an excellent PEG replacement will generate tremendous societal impact. This project will pave the way to replace PEG with ZPEG in therapeutic delivery for minimized side effects and consistent efficacy.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "11355", "attributes": { "award_id": "1S10OD034383-01", "title": "Zeiss LSM 980 Airyscan 2 laser scanning confocal microscope", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "NIH Office of the Director" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 27409, "first_name": "MONIKA", "last_name": "Aggarwal", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2023-05-01", "end_date": "2024-04-30", "award_amount": 593045, "principal_investigator": { "id": 27410, "first_name": "Neal Mathew", "last_name": "Alto", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1215, "ror": "", "name": "UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "TX", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "We are requesting funds to purchase a Zeiss LSM 980 Airyscan 2 confocal microscope for the Microbiology Live Cell Imaging Facility at UTSW Medical Center in Dallas, TX. The system will be dedicated to live cell imaging of Biosafety Level 2 (BSL2) pathogens, experiments that cannot be done on other shared university microscopes due to institutional biosafety regulations. Currently, the only microscope available for live imaging of BSL2 pathogens is over 14 years old and has no capability for super-resolution imaging, an advance in imaging technology with substantial benefits for visualizing tiny microorganisms. The Zeiss LSM 980 instrument will represent a significant addition to the research infrastructure of the university by providing up-to-date imaging technology for a sizable group of investigators in multiple campus departments who are working to understand human infectious diseases and the immune response. To date, the lack of state-of-the-art imaging technology for BSL2 research at UTSW has discouraged researchers from venturing into lines of investigation that involve visualizing living pathogenic microorganisms and how they function in infected cells. The long-term objective of this application is to provide a central, managed, safe imaging facility with modern equipment to support these important research directions. To meet this objective, we have already implemented a fully compliant BSL2 live imaging facility managed by the Microbiology department. The requested instrument will meet our need for a modern live cell imaging system that is suitable for a wide range of applications. The system includes 4 laser lines, Airyscan 2 to enable super- and confocal-resolution imaging with high sensitivity and minimal phototoxicity, and Multiplex plus 8x parallelization for high temporal resolution, a full incubation enclosure for maintaining cells under optimum culture conditions, a motorized scanning stage for multi-position acquisition, definite focus and a piezo z-stage for fast acquisition of z-stacks. Access to a BSL2-specific live cell imaging instrument will allow microbiology, infectious disease and immunology investigators at UTSW to take advantage of live imaging technology to better understand pathogens that impact human health worldwide (e.g. models of Mycoplasma tuberculosis, attenuated HIV, models of SARS-Cov2, herpesviruses, poxviruses, EHEC, Salmonella, Shigella, Listeria, Campylobacter, Leishmania, Trypanosoma). The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has clearly demonstrated the importance of understanding how these and other microbial agents evolve, survive, spread and bypass the human immune system.", "keywords": [ "14 year old", "2019-nCoV", "Attenuated", "Bypass", "Campylobacter", "Cells", "Communicable Diseases", "Dedications", "Equipment", "Escherichia coli EHEC", "Funding", "HIV", "Health", "Herpesviridae", "Human", "Image", "Imaging Device", "Imaging technology", "Immune response", "Immune system", "Immunology", "Incubated", "Institution", "Investigation", "Lasers", "Leishmania", "Listeria", "Medical center", "Microbiology", "Microscope", "Modeling", "Modernization", "Motor", "Mycoplasma", "Pathogenicity", "Phototoxicity", "Positioning Attribute", "Poxviridae", "Regulation", "Research", "Research Infrastructure", "Research Personnel", "Resolution", "Salmonella", "Scanning", "Shigella", "System", "Trypanosoma", "Tuberculosis", "Universities", "Visualization", "experimental study", "imaging facilities", "imaging system", "instrument", "live cell imaging", "microbial", "microorganism", "pandemic coronavirus", "parallelization", "pathogen", "superresolution imaging", "temporal measurement" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "8730", "attributes": { "award_id": "1P01AA029540-01", "title": "Zambia Alabama HIV Alcohol Comorbidities Program (ZAMBAMA)", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 9179, "first_name": "Deidra", "last_name": "Roach", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-10", "end_date": "2026-08-31", "award_amount": 1177489, "principal_investigator": { "id": 24512, "first_name": "Karen L", "last_name": "Cropsey", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 612, "ror": "https://ror.org/008s83205", "name": "University of Alabama at Birmingham", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "AL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 24513, "first_name": "Michael Jeffrey", "last_name": "Vinikoor", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 612, "ror": "https://ror.org/008s83205", "name": "University of Alabama at Birmingham", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "AL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The overall aims of the Zambia Alabama HIV Alcohol Comorbidities Program (ZAMBAMA) are to (Aim 1) test the effectiveness of a transdiagnostic model, Common Elements Treatment Approach (CETA), to reduce unhealthy alcohol use and improve HIV clinical outcomes in under-resourced HIV clinics, (Aim 2) evaluate the mechanisms through which CETA impacts HIV outcomes, (Aim 3) investigate whether the treatment effect of CETA varies by clinical (e.g., presence of comorbidities), demographic (e.g., gender) and/or contextual factors (e.g., Zambia, Alabama), and (Aim 4) examine implementation factors, including cost, related to integrated delivery of alcohol reduction interventions to disadvantaged people with HIV and unhealthy alcohol use at front- line HIV clinics. The P01’s central theme is that, among people with HIV and unhealthy alcohol use, integrated screening and treatment of common behavioral and mental health comorbidities will lower unhealthy alcohol use and improve HIV treatment outcomes. ZAMBAMA will be implemented by a collaborative team that brings together groups of established and young investigators working to address scientific gaps at the nexus of HIV, substance use, and mental illness in priority geographical areas in the global HIV response: sub-Saharan Africa and the Southern U.S. Together, the team will implement two randomized controlled clinical trials in adults with HIV and unhealthy alcohol use to evaluate CETA’s effects on alcohol use, the HIV care continuum (antiretroviral therapy adherence, engagement and retention in HIV care, viral suppression), and common mental health and substance use comorbidities. Project 1 (CETA HIV Alcohol Reduction Trial in Zambia - CHARTZ) will be implemented at public sector primary HIV clinics in Zambia where existing HIV ‘peer educators’ (i.e., lay counselors) will be trained to provide an alcohol brief intervention (BI) and CETA to participants at in-person sessions. Project 2 (Telemedicine for Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Persons Living with HIV using CETA - TALC) will enroll participants receiving HIV care at community Ryan White HIV/AIDS program-funded clinics across Alabama that serve diverse and rural populations. Graduate-level providers (supervised by a licensed clinical psychologist) will provide the interventions (BI and CETA) remotely using telemedicine approaches that were rapidly expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both research projects will also evaluate implementation factors, to enhance the impact of clinical effectiveness data, and both projects will be supported by 3 resource cores: a CETA core for clinical intervention training and oversight, a Methods and Analysis core to harmonize data elements across projects and create synergy in data analyses, and an Administrative core to manage business and regulatory requirements of the P01, monitor and manage overall progress, and promote bidirectional knowledge and idea exchange between Southern U.S.- and sub-Saharan Africa-focused investigators.", "keywords": [ "AIDS/HIV problem", "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome", "Address", "Adherence", "Adult", "Africa South of the Sahara", "Alabama", "Alcohol consumption", "Alcohols", "Anxiety", "Apache", "Arizona", "Back", "Businesses", "COVID-19 pandemic", "Caring", "Clinic", "Clinical", "Clinical effectiveness", "Cognitive Therapy", "Collaborations", "Communities", "Complex", "Continuity of Patient 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"3U54CA221204-05S1", "title": "Zambia AIDS Malignancies Diagnosis and Pathogenesis Program Supplement", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "National Cancer Institute (NCI)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 21025, "first_name": "JOHNAN AUGUSTINE", "last_name": "Kaleeba", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2017-09-15", "end_date": "2022-08-31", "award_amount": 187901, "principal_investigator": { "id": 21026, "first_name": "Chipepo", "last_name": "Kankasa", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 978, "ror": "", "name": "UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NE", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 21027, "first_name": "Charles", "last_name": "Wood", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 978, "ror": "", "name": "UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NE", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The establishment of the Zambia AIDS Malignancies Diagnosis and Pathogenesis Program (ZAMDAPP) will support the U.S.-Zambia collaborations necessary to develop a robust cancer research infrastructure at Zambia’s Cancer Diseases Hospital (CDH) and University Teaching Hospital (UTH), with an initial focus on Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) and ocular surface squamous neoplasia (OSSN) – two of the most common occurring HIV/AIDS-associated malignancies in the country. ZAMDAPP will, for the first time, provide a mechanism by which R01-style research projects led by Zambian scientists trained through the Fogarty International AIDS International Research and Training Program (AITRP, D43TW001429) and AIDS Malignancies Training and Research Program (AMTRP, D43TW010354) may be conducted in three areas critical to cancer research – virology, biostatistics and epidemiology, and cancer diagnostics. The Zambian personnel leading the research projects will benefit from mentoring by U.S. partners and support by a number of research core facilities. ZAMDAPP will leverage strengths in clinical care and treatment at CDH and UTH; strengths in molecular viral oncology research and cancer genomics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; and strengths in pathology, epidemiology, and biostatistics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, while extending the work that has been accomplished through AITRP and AMTRP, which provide support for trainees to pursue advanced degrees. In addition to providing research funding, ZAMDAPP will provide diverse training activities in the United States and Zambia to engage the next generation of Zambian cancer researchers, increase local expertise, and enhance the transfer of technology. The partnership will lead to exchanges that build the technical and personnel infrastructure necessary to perform the high-quality and sustainable cancer research desperately needed in Zambia. Three specific aims will be accomplished: 1) develop the cancer research infrastructure at UTH and CDH through the establishment and enhancement two research core facilities; 2) provide an opportunity for former Fogarty trained fellows to lead hypothesis-driven research projects in the two more prevalent AIDS-associated malignancies, KS and OSSN, with the support of the U.S. partners and the core facilities; and 3) develop a pipeline of next generation Zambian cancer researchers through a) in-country workshops, b) pilot project funding, and c) short-term U.S. technical training. ZAMDAPP will build on successful ongoing Fogarty and National Cancer Institute training programs led by the PI and the leadership team in sub-Saharan Africa; implement a cross-disciplinary research and training program with different training tracks and in-country research projects that pair Zambian and U.S. researchers along with opportunities to conduct hypothesis-driven research projects; and be Zambian driven and benefit from broad local support. Thus, there is strong potential for ZAMDAPP to success in reaching its goal.", "keywords": [ "AIDS related cancer", "AIDS/HIV problem", "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome", "Acute Disease", "Address", "Affect", "Africa", "Africa South of the Sahara", "Area", "Biometry", "Cancer Biology", "Cancer Burden", "Cancer Diagnostics", "Cancer Research Infrastructure", "Cancer Research Project", "Cervical dysplasia", "Chronic", "Clinical Treatment", "Collaborations", "Core Facility", "Country", "Coupled", "Developing Countries", "Diagnosis", "Disease", "Educational workshop", "Epidemic", "Epidemiology", "Eye Neoplasms", "Female", "Funding", "Goals", "HIV-1", "Health", "Healthcare Systems", "Hospitals", "Human Resources", "Immunosuppression", "Incidence", "Individual", "Infrastructure", "Institution", "Interdisciplinary Study", "International AIDS", "Investments", "Kaposi Sarcoma", "Lead", "Leadership", "Malignant Neoplasms", "Medical center", "Mentors", "Molecular", "National Cancer Institute", "Nebraska", "Oncology", "Outcome", "Pathogenesis", "Pathology", "Physicians", "Pilot Projects", "Prevalence", "Prevention", "Research", "Research Infrastructure", "Research Personnel", "Research Project Grants", "Research Training", "Scientist", "Screening for cancer", "Teaching Hospitals", "Technology Transfer", "Time", "Training", "Training Activity", "Training Programs", "Training and Infrastructure", "United States", "Universities", "Viral", "Work", "Zambia", "anticancer research", "antiretroviral therapy", "cancer care", "cancer genomics", "clinical care", "improved", "male", "neglect", "next generation", "ocular surface squamous neoplasia", "potential biomarker", "programs", "success", "virology" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "13692", "attributes": { "award_id": "2115730", "title": "Youth-Directed Math Collaboratories and Mathematical Identity: African American Youth as Co-Learners, Co-Educators and Co-Researchers", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Directorate for STEM Education (EDU)", "AISL" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 9914, "first_name": "Deena", "last_name": "Khalil", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-10-01", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 2997873, "principal_investigator": { "id": 29931, "first_name": "Naama", "last_name": "Lewis", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 29931, "first_name": "Naama", "last_name": "Lewis", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 29932, "first_name": "Maisha V", "last_name": "Moses", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 29933, "first_name": "Alice", "last_name": "Cook", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 29934, "first_name": "Thomas", "last_name": "Nikundiwe", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2322, "ror": "", "name": "Young People's Project, Inc.", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Many Black youth in both urban and rural areas lack engaging opportunities to learn mathematics in a manner that leads to full participation in STEM. The Young People’s Project (YPP), the Baltimore Algebra Project (BAP), and the Education for Liberation Network (EdLib) each have over two decades of experience working on this issue. In the city of Baltimore, where 90% of youth in poverty are Black, and only 5% of these students meet or exceed expectations in math, BAP, a youth led organization, develops and employs high school and college age youth to provide after-school tutoring in Algebra 1, and to advocate for a more just education for themselves and their peers. YPP works in urban or rural low income communities that span the country developing Math Literacy Worker programs that employ young people ages 14-22 to create spaces to help their younger peers learn math. Building on these deep and rich experiences, this Innovations in Development project studies how Black students see themselves as mathematicians in the context of paid peer-to-peer math teaching--a combined social, pedagogical, and economic strategy. Focusing primarily in Baltimore, the project studies how young people grow into new self-definitions through their work in informal, student-determined math learning spaces, structured collaboratively with adults who are experts in both mathematics and youth development. The project seeks to demonstrate the benefits of investing in young people as learners, teachers, and educational collaborators as part of a core strategy to improve math learning outcomes for all students. <br/><br/>The project uses a mixed methods approach to describe how mathematical identity develops over time in young people employed in a Youth-Directed Mathematics Collaboratory. 60 high school aged students with varying mathematical backgrounds (first in Baltimore and later in Boston) will learn how to develop peer- and near-peer led math activities with local young people in informal settings, after-school programs, camps, and community centers, reaching approximately 600 youth/children. The high school aged youth employed in this project will develop their own math skills and their own pedagogical skills through the already existing YPP and BAP structures, made up largely of peers and near-peers just like themselves. They will also participate in on-going conversations within the Collaboratory and with the community about the cultural significance of doing mathematics, which for YPP and BAP is a part of the ongoing Civil Rights/Human Rights movement. Mathematical identity will be studied along four dimensions: (a) students’ sequencing and interpretation of past mathematical experiences (autobiographical identity); (b) other people’s talk to them and their talk about themselves as learners, doers, and teachers of mathematics (discoursal identity); (c) the development of their own voices in descriptions and uses of mathematical knowledge and ideas (authorial identity); and (d) their acceptance or rejection of available selfhoods (socio-culturally available identity). Intended outcomes from the project include a clear description of how mathematical identity develops in paid peer-teaching contexts, and growing recognition from both local communities and policy-makers that young people have a key role to play, not only as learners, but also as teachers and as co-researchers of mathematics education. <br/><br/>This Innovations in Development project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to (a) advance new approaches to and evidence-based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments; (b) provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; (c) advance innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments; and (d) engage the public of all ages in learning STEM in informal environments.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "14266", "attributes": { "award_id": "2105317", "title": "Youth Sports Coaches and their Community in Air Pollution Governance", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "(SPRF-FR) SBE Postdoctoral Res" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 1351, "first_name": "Josie Welkom", "last_name": "Miranda", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-09-15", "end_date": null, "award_amount": 138000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 30839, "first_name": "Kim", "last_name": "Fortun", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 30839, "first_name": "Kim", "last_name": "Fortun", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 2448, "ror": "", "name": "Hernandez, Fred Ariel", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Kim Fortun at the University of California, Irvine, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist’s investigation of the effects of air pollution on youth sports coaching practices and pedagogical development. Exposure to air pollution during childhood has significant destructive effects on health and well-being, both short and long-term. K–12 students in marginalized communities often suffer disproportionally from exposure to airborne hazards. School staff members, especially sports coaches, are well positioned to mitigate children’s exposure to air pollution through their decisions of when, where, and how to exercise. Yet most coaches are inadequately prepared to address such environmental hazards. This project helps education policymakers and curriculum development professionals dramatically improve their accounting of situated environmental hazards in diverse school settings by giving them access to real-time data. In particular, it focuses on providing working class, minority, and immigrant communities with such data. For while such communities are often the subject of pollution-related research, they are seldom invited to give input during basic data collection—even though they are particularly well positioned and stand to benefit the most. This project develops a new line of research that theorizes coaches as air pollution actors in their everyday activities. Such innovation is possible by using participatory action research design elements and leading community-engaged, environmental justice-oriented research approaches.<br/><br/>The proposed project, “Youth Sports Coaches and their Community in Air Pollution Governance,” will study the daily decision making and pedagogical choices of school sports coaches at a local public school, and its surrounding neighborhood, in the San Gabriel Valley, California, a region with significant air pollution given its proximity to numerous major highways. The project objectives are (1) to collect, organize, and map empirical data on pollution research and governance; (2) to collect interview data from stakeholders; (3) to collect air pollution data through monitoring devices; (4) to develop a multi-scalar theoretical framework to characterize pollution governance; (5) to develop a freeway and transportation corridor archive. The study will employ emerging Urban Humanities methods, ethnographic observations, interviews, archival research, and air quality monitoring data to produce original data sets finely attuned to localized experiences of school coaches. Stakeholder coaches will wear, and neighbors will install, air pollution monitoring devices, and will learn how to access and understand the generated data via smartphone applications. Outcomes include developing maps and other visualizations of the daily activities of coaches on school grounds, situating their pedagogic decisions vis-à-vis the pollution governance infrastructures of school, city, and state. A broader impact of this project is the development of guides for sports coaches and community stakeholders to understand and communicate effectively about air pollution hazards.<br/><br/>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 1, "pages": 1392, "count": 13920 } } }