Patient-Specific Neuroimaging Markers of Recovery After Traumatic Brain Injury
2021 Award
Principal Investigator: Evan Gordon (WashU Radiology)
Collaborators: Nico Dosenbach, Terrance Kummer, Benjamin Kay (WashU Neurology)
A model of human neuroprotection
2021 Award
Principal Investigator: Daniel Kerschensteiner (WashU Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences)
Collaborator: Philip Ruzycki (WashU Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences)
Brain injury creates a supportive microenvironment for tumorigenesis
2021 Award
Principal Investigator: Terrance Kummer (WashU Neurology)
Collaborator: David Gutmann (WashU Neurology)
Mapping ketamine-orchestrated translatome to rapid-acting anti-anhedonic effects at the synaptic level with cell-type specific resolution
2021 Award
Principal Investigator: Marco Pignatelli (WashU Psychiatry)
Collaborator: Vijay Samineni (WashU Anesthesiology)
VEGFA as a potential therapeutic target to enhance motor recovery following acute and chronic nerve injury
2021 Award
Principal Investigator: Alison Snyder-Warwick (WashU Surgery)
Collaborators: Jianjun Guan ( WashU Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science)
Role of satellite glia cells in chemotherapy-induced neuropathy
2020 Award
Principal Investigator: Stefanie Geisler (WashU Neurology)
Collaborator: Valeria Cavalli (WashU Dept. of Neuroscience)
Microglial Phagocytosis as a Determinant of Neuro-inflammation in AD pathogenesis
2020 Award
Principal investigator: Abhinav Diwan (WashU Medicine)
Collaborators: Carolina Soriano Tarraga (WashU Psychiatry), Oscar Harari (WashU Psychiatry)
Defining the molecular basis for inhibiting LRP1-mediated cellular propagation of pathogenic tau
2020 Award
Principal Investigator: Thomas Brett (WashU Medicine)
Collaborator: Gaya Amarasinghe (WashU Pathology & Immunology)
A synthetic gene therapy approach for Angelman syndrome
2020 Award
Principal Investigator: Jason Yi (WashU Dept of Neuroscience)
Collaborator: Susan Maloney (WashU Psychiatry)
Targeting DNMT3A as a therapeutic strategy for Huntington’s disease
2020 Award
Principal Investigator: Hiroko Yano (WashU Neurosurgery)
Collaborator: Andrew Yoo (WashU Developmental Biology), Allegra Petti (WashU Neurosurgery)
Previous Pilot Awards
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