Research Funding

Alexandros Tzatsos, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy and regenerative biology, was featured in News-Medical and Phys.org for receiving over one million dollars in grants from the National Institutes of Health to study the molecular foundations of pancreatic cancer.

Paul Marvar, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology, was awarded a $721,435 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study stress-induced hypertension and its effects on the neuroimmune system.

Nikki Posnack, Ph.D., a post-doctoral pharmacology and physiology researcher, received a $209,926 grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to study plastics and their potential human health risks, particularly in the cardiovascular system.

Ruth Uppercu Paul’s generous $1 million gift to the High Risk Breast and Ovarian Cancer Clinic at the George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates (MFA) will enable the clinic to fund two genetic counselors and provide patient assistance support for genetic screening and counseling.

Reuven Schore, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, along with his colleagues at Children's National Health System, received a $1.92 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to a focus on new approaches for treatment of relapsed pediatric acute myelogenous leukemia.

Wenge Zhu, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has received a $720,000 Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society to identify a new pathway to regulate DNA damage repair in cancer…

Dr. Jeffrey Bethony and Dr. David Diemert have received a grant to develop and test a novel, low-cost hookworm vaccine to help control human hookworm infection in endemic countries.

IntheCapital featured research throughout the George Washington University, specifically noting a $747,000 grant received by Chiara Manzini, M.D., an assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology, for her work on autism research.

In the Capital featured GW researchers, who have received more than $13 million in federal funding over the last month.

Dominic Raj, M.D., director of the division of nephrology and professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was the recipient of two prestigious UO-1 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). These multi-million dollar studies will…