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Aleksandar Rajkovic, MD, PHD,
received a five-year, $1.7 million R01 grant from NICHD, entitled "Med12 Mechanisms of Uterine Leiomyoma Foundation."
Hy Simhan, MD, MS,
a team member of the NIH- UGS grant entitled "Pre-and Postnatal Exposure Periods for Child Health: Common Risks and Shared Mechanisms" [ECHO] grant, with Dr. O'Connor at the University of Rochester.
Judy Yanowitz, PhD,
received a two-year, $450,000 grant from NICHD, entitled “ Fluorescently Tagged C. elegans to Probe Meiotic Recombination”.
Kyle Orwig, PhD,
received a three-year, $1.1 million R01 grant from NICHD, entitled “Improving Fertility Preservation in Boys with Cancer”. He also received a five-year, $1.05 million T32 training grant from NICHD, entitled “Reproductive Development from Gonads to Fetuses”.
Charlene Dezutti, PHD,
received a four-year, $1.8 million R01 grant from NICHD, entitled "Hormones, Immunity and HIV Risk."
Elizabeth Krans, MD,
received a 1-year, $50,000 grant from UPP Foundation entitled, "Using social networks to decrease drug use and high-risk behavior in pregnant women with opioid use disorder."
Gerald Schatten, PhD,
has received $364,000 competitive supplementary funding for one additional year on his NIA R25 entitled, “Frontiers in Aging and Regeneration Research (FrARR)”
Yaki Barak, PhD,
received a 1-year, $195,000 R56 grant from NIDDK entitled, “Mechanisms of adipocyte death”
MWRI,
received a 5-year, $2.6 million renewal of the K12-BIRCWH grant from NICHD and the Office of Research in Womens Health entitled, "Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Womens Health in Pittsburgh."
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