Pilot Grant Recipients - Round #132 SOM I3 Nexus Research (7/2023)

4 awards funded, $400,000 total

• Toxicity and spreading of TDP-43 pathology in ALS/FTD
  • Jie Jiang (Cell Biology) and Jimena Andersen (Human Genetics)

• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Cardiovascular Reactivity to Stress in Coronary Artery Disease: A Psychophysiological Approach 
  • Kasra Moazzami (Medicine) and Sheila Rauch (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)

• Behavioral and Functional Imaging Study of Disease-Associated GRIN Genetic Variation in Animal Models
  • Hongjie Yuan (Pharmacology and Chemical Biology) and Steven Liang (Radiology and Imaging Sciences)

• Assessment of brain bioenergetics for identification of metabolic targets to treat schizophrenia
  • Ashish Arunkumar Sharma (Pathology and Laboratory Sciences) and Zhexing Wen (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences)