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Faridi Awarded K23 Career Development Award from National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Kamil Faridi, MD, MSc, received a prestigious K23 career development award from the NHLBI.
27 Sep 2022
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De Aquino Awarded NIDA Grant
Joao P. De Aquino, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been awarded a federal grant to study the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of oral and vaporized delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) among older adults.
26 Sep 2022
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Hillmer Awarded Grant to Develop Brain Imaging Tool to Study the Brain’s Immune System
Ansel Hillmer, PhD, assistant professor of radiology and biomedical imaging and of psychiatry, has been awarded a federal grant to develop a new brain imaging tool to study the brain’s immune system.
22 Sep 2022
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Mena-Hurtado and Smolderen Awarded NIH Grant to Develop Integrated Pain Management Strategies for Peripheral Artery Disease
Kim G. Smolderen, PhD, has received a R21 National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health grant,
21 Sep 2022
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Polimanti Receives NIMH Grant To Study Internalizing Disorders, COVID-19
Renato Polimanti, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, has received a 3-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to evaluate the association of internalizing disorders with the risk, onset, and vulnerability of COVID-19.
15 Sep 2022
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Bassir Nia Receives National Institute on Drug Abuse Grant
Anahita Bassir Nia, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has received a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a study titled, “Endocannabinoid System Alterations in Opioid Use Disorder (OUD).”
15 Sep 2022
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Irwin receives $7 million grant to investigate healthy interventions for ovarian cancer patients
Yale School of Public Health Associate Dean of Research and Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology Melinda Irwin, Ph.D., M.P.H., has been awarded a five-year, $7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to explore how nutrition and exercise interventions can improve chemotherapy outcomes and reduce toxicity for women with ovarian cancer.
16 Mar 2022
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Gianvito Masi, MD Named MGNet Scholar for Myasthenia Gravis Research
Gianvito Masi, MD, a neurologist in the lab of Kevin O’Connor, PhD, has been selected as a MGNet Scholar by the Myasthenia Gravis Rare Disease Network (MGNet), which is part of the National Institutes of Health’s Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network. The grant, “Investigating immune mechanisms underlying checkpoint inhibitor myasthenia gravis,” funds two years of research and will begin in June 2022.
14 Mar 2022
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YSPH grant awards top $60 million in fiscal 2021
Faculty at the Yale School of Public Health were awarded more than $60 million in research grants in the 2021 fiscal year, further powering the school’s leadership in major science areas.
11 Feb 2022
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Naila Makhani, MD, MPH, named Harry Weaver Neuroscience Scholar by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Naila Makhani, MD, MPH, has been named a Harry Weaver Neuroscience Scholar by the National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society, starting in July of 2022. The five-year early-career award is highly competitive and prestigious –a limited number of awards are given out by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to highly qualified newly-independent researchers.
1 Feb 2022
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McKee, Bellamy Receive Grant to Continue Development of Peer Mentor Training Program
Sherry McKee, PhD, professor of psychiatry, and Chyrell Bellamy, PhD, MSW, associate professor of psychiatry have received a grant from the Elizabeth Dollard Charitable Trust to support continued development of their peer mentor training program for people in recovery from substance use and with lived experience of incarceration.
19 Jan 2022
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Michael J. Fox Foundation Grant Will Fund First Clinical Trial of Ketamine to Treat Depression in People With Parkinson’s Disease
Two Yale Department of Psychiatry researchers have been awarded a $2 million grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research to conduct the first clinical trial of ketamine to treat depression in people with Parkinson’s disease.
16 Nov 2021
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$13 Million Grant to Study Malignant Brain Tumors Awarded to YSPH Researcher and Colleagues
A team of scientists led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health has received a $13 million grant to investigate the molecular evolution of lower grade gliomas, slow growing but malignant brain tumors that primarily affect young adults.
2 Nov 2021
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Yale Geneticist With Rare Disease to Build Pediatric Cell Atlas of Skeletal Muscle
A $3 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, awarded to a team of researchers led by Monkol Lek, PhD, assistant professor of genetics at Yale, will support Lek and his team in creating a Pediatric Cell Atlas of Skeletal Muscle — a roadmap of healthy skeletal cells and how they change at four key age group milestones between the ages of zero and 18 years.
31 Aug 2021
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Yale Study Participants Release Songs Created as Part of Hallucination Research
Philip Corlett, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, and his research team working on a study that evaluates the impact of group song-making on hallucinations, recently reached one of the first milestones associated with the project: The first group of participants has released an EP of music created during its sessions.
30 Aug 2021
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Girgenti Awarded Study Grant by American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Matthew J. Girgenti, PhD, Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry, has been awarded a $90,000 grant by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention for his study, “Understanding Suicide Through Postmortem Targeted Brain Multi-omics.”
11 Jun 2021
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$8.5M Federal Grant Aims for Big Impact from Small Molecules in the Gut
Yale researchers across a range of disciplines are coming together to explore the important role of microbial metabolites in our microbiota—the trillions of bacterial cells that colonize our intestines.
Source: Yale West Campus
7 Jun 2021
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Yale Mood Disorders Research Program Receives American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Grant
The Yale Mood Disorders Research Program (MDRP), directed by Hilary Blumberg, MD, has received a $1.5 million American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) grant.
4 Jun 2021
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$3.59M NIMH Grant Awarded to Serena Spudich, MD
A new, five-year, $3.59M grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) was awarded to Principal Investigator Serena Spudich, MD, Gilbert Glaser Professor of Neurology at Yale, along with co-PI, Joshua Cyktor, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh.
1 Jun 2021
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Ross, Fineberg Awarded Research Grants by Deeda Blair Research Initiative for Disorders of the Brain
David Ross, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry; and Sarah Fineberg, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, are among the first three researchers awarded grants through the Deeda Blair Research Initiative for Disorders of the Brain, sponsored by the Foundation for the Institutes of Health (FNIH).
10 May 2021