Grants Received

Funds totaling $637,574 were recently received by the Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences (BSNES), the School of Pharmacy, the School of Nursing, the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) and the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts.

• David Lampe, BSNES, $410,166, from the National Institutes of Health for Paratransgenesis for Malaria Using Asaia Sp. Bacteria.
• Wilson Meng, School of Pharmacy, $142,957, from the National Institutes of Health, for Development of a Regulatory T Cell Mimetic for Tolerance Induction in Skin Transplantation.
• Mai-Ly Steers, School of Nursing, $62,451, from the National Institutes of Health for A Social Media Personalized Normative Feedback Intervention for Heavy Drinking Student.
• Melissa Kalarchian, School of Nursing, $20,000, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, for a collaborative project with Carnegie Mellon University which was selected to participate in the Office of Women’s Health Competition Shape of Health: An Obesity Prevention Game.
• Janie Fritz and Inci Sayrak, McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, a $2,000 Faculty Development Grant, to support the development of a course titled Global and Cultural Issues in Health Communication.