Research Funding

The George Washington University has received a number of awards each greater than $750,000 from federal agencies since the start of the fall 2014 semester.
Shahram Majidi, M.D., a second-year resident in the Department of Neurology, received at $154K grant from the American Heart Association to study the presence of diffuse brain swelling and injury in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage.
Steven Farmer, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and health policy, received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the effect of malpractice risk and financial incentives on cardiac testing, which will inform ongoing state malpractice reforms and federal…
Researchers at The Milken Institute School of Public Health, together with the Rodham Institute, were awarded a grant estimated to be funded at $23.8 million from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to study a new model that aims to improve HIV prevention and care while lowering…
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that it has received a generous grant from KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America for equipment to help train future health care leaders in the latest surgical and other treatment techniques.
John Hawdon, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, was recently awarded $430,722 from the National Institutes of Health to develop a model system to study parasitic nematode infection, which will lead to greater understanding of the infective process and the…
Valerie Hu, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, was awarded $435K from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to study how certain environmental factors affect the gene RORA, which has been shown to be an important regulator of multiple genes of neurological…
Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Ph.D., director of the GW Institute for Neuroscience and professor of pharmacology and physiology, received a $739K grant from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative to study the link between autism and disrupted brain development.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and The Peking University Health Science Center in Beijing, China are pleased to announce the award of significant funding for an international co-operative project to understand the molecular mechanisms of a very common blood coagulation disorder…
Alexandros Tzatsos, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy and regenerative biology, was awarded over one million dollars in grants from the National Institutes of Health to study the molecular foundations of pancreatic cancer.