Grants Received

Funds totaling $250,360 were received by the Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences (BSNES), the School of Pharmacy and the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts.

• Rita Mihailescu and Jeffrey Evanseck, BSNES, $200,000, from the National Science Foundation, for APID: Conserved Regions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) RNA-RNA Interactions that Mediate Genome Dimerization and/or Progression Through the Viral Life Cycle.
• Jill Dembowki, BSNES, a $10,000 Faculty Development Fund award, for Integrator Complex Function During HSV-1 Transcription.
• Jan Janecka and Philip Auron, BSNES, a $10,000 Faculty Development Fund award, for Functional Differences in Hypoxia-Response Genes Between Snow Leopards and Other Big Cats; Ramifications for Physiology and Evolution.
• Michael Jenson-Seaman, BSNES, $6,685, from the National Institutes of Health, Molecular Basis of Adaptation of Seminal Proteins of Humans and Other Primates.
• Rehana Leak, School of Pharmacy, $13,675, from the American Heart Association passed through the University of Pittsburgh, for Dopamine Systems and Rehabilitation Treatments for Improving Neurorecovery among Cardiac Arrest Survivors.
• Lauren Sugden, Liberal Arts, a $10,000 Faculty Development Fund award, for Decrypting the Noisy Genome: An Investigation into the Role of RNA Structure in Recent Human Evolution.