Grants & You September 2015

Funded

*Jack Dillenberg, DDS, MPH, ASDOH, “Expanding Dental Workforce Training within Collaborative, Team-based Care Targeting FQHC/Underserved Populations – Year 6,” Health Resources and Services Administration, $349,050, July 2015 – June 2016.

**Doris Fountain, RN, KCOM AHEC Program Office, “Northeast Missouri Regional Arthritis Center – Year 31,” Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, $50,251, July 2015 – June 2016.

**Jason Haxton, MA, Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, “Phase 1 of Interactive Website Design for the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine,” American Osteopathic Foundation, $19,850, June 2015 – May 2016.

**Margaret Hoogland, MLS, ATSU University Library, “Connecting Kids and Health Information via Community Partnerships,” National Network of Libraries Medicine, $1,500, May 2015 – April 2016.

*Uzoma Ikonne, PhD, SOMA Pharmacology, Anna Campbell, PhD, SOMA Anatomy, and Joy Lewis, PhD, SOMA Public Health, “Lecture Capture Technology, Student Attendance, and Academic Performance,” American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, $4,981, July 2015 – December 2016.

*Peter Kondrashov, PhD, KCOM Anatomy, “Development of Clinical Skills in NRMC Residents and Third- and Fourth-Year Osteopathic Medical Students Within a Hands-on Simulation Surgical Skills Lab Using Cadaveric Material,” Northeast Missouri Osteopathic Charitable Trust, $34,000, June 2015 – December 2016.

*Lawrence LeBeau, DO, SOMA Graduate Medical Education, Christine Morgan, EdD, CHES, SOMA, and Deborah Heath, DO, SOMA Family Medicine and OMM, “Assessing Competency in Family Medicine Residents Using the OMM Mini-CEX,” American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, $4,768, June 2015 – December 2016.

**Robert Schneider, DO, FAAFP, KCOM Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, “Still Caring Health Connection (in affiliation with Volunteers in Medicine) Family Medicine Cares USA,” American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, $21,986, July 2015 – June 2020.

*Marc Shlossman, DMD, and Sabah Kalamchi, DDS, FFDRCS, ASDOH, “Nasseo First-In-Man Clinical Study,”Nasseo, Inc., $7,000, July 2015 – January 2017.

*Yvette Thornton, RDH, and Heather Johnson, RDH, MEd, ASDOH Dentistry in the Community, “Smiles Across Pinal County,” The Delta Dental of Arizona Foundation, $51,000, June 2015 – May 2016.

*Yvette Thornton, RDH, and Heather Johnson, RDH, MEd, ASDOH Dentistry in the Community, “Smiles Across Pinal County,” National Children’s Oral Health Foundation, $5,000, August 2015 – July 2016.

**Tamara Valovich McLeod, PhD, ATC, FNATA, ASHS Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, “Youth Football Safety Study (Year 4),” Datalys Center, $24,000, July 2015 – December 2015.

*Margaret Wilson, DO, and Patricia Sexton, DHEd, FNAOME, KCOM, “Preparing Primary Care Trainees to Transform Health Care Systems – Year 1,” Health Resources and Services Administration – Primary Care Training and Enhancement, $240,267, July 2015 -June 2016.

Submitted (Pending)

**Debra Loguda-Summers, Museum of Osteopathic Medicine, “Digitization and Transcription of the Business Letters of the American School of Osteopathy 1889 – 1900,” Advocates for the American Osteopathic Association, $3,000, February 2016 – June 2016.

**Tamara Valovich McLeod, PhD, ATC, FNATA, ASHS Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, “Head Trauma: Evaluation of Concussive and Repetitive Head Impacts by Molecular, Imaging and Clinical Assessments,” Pac 12: Student-Athlete Health and Well-Being Grant Program, $57,636, November 2015 – November 2018.

Intramural Funding – 2015 Cycle – applications funded

ATSU Student Research Grant

Alyssa Sleight, AT, ‘16, ASHS Athletic Training, Tamara Valovich McLeod, PhD, ATC, FNATA, faculty co-mentor, ASHS Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, and Cailee Welch, PhD, ATC, faculty co-mentor, ASHS Athletic Training, “Adolescent Athlete and Parent Perceptions of Health-Related Quality of Life following Sport-Related Concussion,” $1,000.

ATSU Strategic Research Fund (SRF)

James Lynskey, PT, PhD, ASHS Physical Therapy, “Robot-Assisted Ankle Rehabilitation and Neural Plasticity after Stroke,” $28,837.

Tara McIsaac, PT, PhD, ASHS Physical Therapy, and Amy Lyons-Kennedy, MS, ASHS Occupational Therapy, “Dual Task Attention & Multi-limb Control in PD: Translation to a Driving Simulator Environment,” $30,000.

Warner/Fermaturo and the ATSU Board of Trustees Research Fund

Zulfiqar Ahmad, PhD, KCOM Biochemistry, “Molecular Modulation of the Catalytic Sites of Escherichia Coli F1Fo ATP Synthase,” $10,000.

Yingzi Chang, MD, PhD, KCOM Pharmacology, “Role of SHP2 in MCPIP1-mediated Attenuation of IL-6-induced Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Migration,” $10,000.

James Cox, PhD, KCOM Biochemistry, “Effect of Cystatin Peptide on B16 Melanoma Cells,” $10,000.

Neil Sargentini, PhD, and Deborah Hudman, MS, KCOM Microbiology and Immunology, “Survey of Adair County Ticks for Bacterial and Viral Agents of Human Disease,” $6,000.

Melissa Stuart, PhD, KCOM Microbiology and Immunology, “Inflammatory Responses Elicited by Trichomonas tenax in Human Gingival Epithelial Cells,” $9,714.

Bruce Young, PhD, KCOM Anatomy, “3D Reconstruction of the Neural Pathway for Audition in Snakes,” $9,544.

G. Wayne Zhou, PhD, KCOM Biochemistry, “Identify the Predictive Biomarkers for sDILI (severe Drug Induced Liver Injury) Compounds by Using the DAMA Staining Technology,” $10,000.

KCOM Biomedical Sciences Proposals Funded – $6,000

Spencer Batten and William Sexton, PhD, KCOM Biomedical Sciences, “Acute Creatine Kinase Inhibition in Type-I and Type-II Skeletal Muscle.”

Mydah Choudhry and Vineet Singh, PhD, KCOM Microbiology and Immunology, “Molecular Assessment of Bacterial Species Implicated in Periodontitis.”

Sarah Dobard and William Sexton, PhD, KCOM Biomedical Sciences, “5HT1B/D Receptor Agonists and Their Effects on Coronary Hemodynamics in Rats.”

Travis Hohenbery and Pandurangan Ramaraj, PhD, KCOM Biochemistry, “Effects of Androstendione and Testosterone on Human Melanoma.”

Ally Loveland and Neal Chamberlain, PhD, KCOM Microbiology and Immunology, “Gene Mutation Alteration of Persister Cell Proliferation in Staphylococcus aureus.”

Clayton Marolt and Raja Rachakatla, PhD, KCOM Anatomy, “Rabbit Umbilical Cord Stem Cells used for IFN-b Delivery in Pancreatic Cancer.”

Miri Pannu and Neil Sargentini, PhD, KCOM Microbiology and Immunology, “Protective Value of Carotenoid Production in S. aureus.”

Robert Ring and Vineet Singh, PhD, KCOM Microbiology and Immunology, “Determining the Role of Pyruvate Dehydrogenase on BCFA Metabolism in S. aureus.”

*Full proposal development and support provided by the ATSU Sponsored Programs team

**Technical support provided by the ATSU Sponsored Programs/Research Support team(s)

NIH Recently Released Grant Opportunities

The following table lists RFAs, PAs, and PARs recently released by the National Institutes of Health. If any of these opportunities are of interest to you, contact Sponsored Programs or Research Support at ext. 2860. Grant guidelines and submission deadlines for all active NIH funding opportunities are available at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html. To learn more about the grants process, see Grants Process Overview.

NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs)

Open: September 1 through November 16 Annually
Purpose: You do the research. NIH will repay your student loans. That is the idea behind the NIH LRPs. NIH wants to encourage outstanding health professionals to pursue careers in biomedical, behavioral, social, and clinical research. If you commit at least two years to conducting qualified research funded by a domestic nonprofit organization or US federal, state, or local government entity, NIH may repay up to $35,000 of your qualified student loan debt per year, including most undergraduate, graduate, and medical school loans. Loan repayment benefits are in addition to the institutional salary you receive for your research. If you are or will be conducting qualified research funded by a domestic nonprofit institution outside NIH, you may be eligible for one of the five extramural LRPs:
Clinical Research
Pediatric Research
Health Disparities Research
Contraception and Infertility Research
Clinical Research for Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds.

Other Extramural Funding Opportunities

Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Invites Applications for Program Enhancement Award

Through its annual Family Medicine Program Enhancement Award program, STFM awards grants of up to $2,000 to family medicine programs looking to implement enhancements at their institutions while developing the leadership skills of family medicine faculty. This award replaces the Faculty Enhancement Experience Award. Preference will be given to programs whose project leaders are early in their academic careers.
Eligible projects must be designed to provide a hands-on learning and leadership opportunity for a faculty member (project leader) based on a specific program enhancement. Application deadline is September 18, 2015.

The Walmart Foundation’s State Giving Program

The Foundation’s mission is to create opportunities so people can live better. Core funding areas are hunger relief, job training, and support of local schools. In 2015, Community Engagement funding to support unmet needs of unserved low-income populations—including unmet health care access needs—is also available. Funding deadlines vary by state, with Arizona and Missouri proposals being accepted by the Foundation September 14-18, 2015.