Research Funding

Tatiana Znayenko-Miller, a graduate student in the Integrative Medicine Program, was awarded a grant from the BUCK Cancer Foundation. 
The GW Cancer Center is pleased to announce that Katherine Chiappinelli, PhD, was awarded a prestigious grant from The G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation.
Brandon Kohrt, MD, PhD, Charles and Sonia Akman Professor of Global Psychiatry at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, received $100,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Division of Thoracic Surgery at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences will evaluate the clinical and educational efficacy of a new interactive 360-degree virtual reality platform with funding from the 2018 Education Research Grant Award from the Center for Faculty Excellence.
A team from Children’s National Health System, led by Cara Lichtenstein, MD, MPH, assistant professor of pediatrics at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was one of the recipients of the 2018 Education Research Grant Award from the SMHS Center for Faculty Excellence.
A team from the GW Cancer Center received a 2018 Education Research Grant Award from the Center for Faculty Excellence at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
The Center for Faculty Excellence at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences recently presented the 2018 Medical and Health Sciences Education Research Grant Award to Maranda Ward, EdD ’17, MPH, and Shawneequa Callier, JD.
The National Institutes of Health recently awarded more than $2.4 million to a research team at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, to study how cell stress in the brain could impact the risk of obesity-induced hypertension.
Joshua Woolstenhulme, DPT, PhD, assistant professor of physical therapy and health care sciences, received a $130,000 grant from the Cure JM Foundation.
Paul Marvar, PhD, at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, received a large grant from the NIH to study a possible link between post-traumatic stress disorder and cardiovascular disease.