Category: Grant News

Mark Cayabyab Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in NSU’s College of Dental Medicine. He received a President’s Faculty Research and Development Grant (PFRDG) grant for his project titled “A novel vaccine strategy to elicit protective antibody responses against HIV-1.”   Tell me about your recent grant-funded project. With this PFRDG grant we are developing a vaccine strategy against HIV/AIDS in […]

Brian Van Hoozen Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry & Physics Department in NSU’s Halmos College of Arts & Sciences. He received a President’s Faculty Research and Development Grant (PFRDG) for his project “How the molecular vibrations of water may prevent skin cancer.”   Tell me about your recent grant-funded project. This grant focuses on understanding a mechanism […]

Karen Neely Ph.D. is a Research Scientist at the Oceanographic Center in the NSU Halmos College of Arts & Sciences. Her Florida Department of Environmental Protection grant project “Florida Keys Coral Disease Intervention Strike Teams” was recently funded for $327,000.   Tell me about your recent grant-funded project. In 2014 a coral disease emerged in Florida and has now spread […]

Aurelien Tartar Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Biological Science in NSU’s Halmos College of Arts & Sciences. He was recently funded by USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) for his project titled “A Proteomics Approach to Identify Novel Biopesticides in Oomycete Secretomes.”   Tell me about your recent grant-funded project. I am currently on a […]

  Scott Poland, Ed.D. is a Professor in NSU’s College of Psychology and the Director of the Suicide and Violence Prevention Office (SVP). His $335,000 Florida Blue Foundation-funded grant is titled “STEPS (School Toolkit for K-12 Educators to Prevent Suicide).”   Tell me about your recent grant-funded project. This Florida Blue grant will provide funding to train 500 school administrators […]

Xiaozhe Han, D.M.D., Ph.D., principal investigator (PI) from College of Dental Medicine’s Department of Oral Science and Translational Research (OSTR) were recently awarded a four-year $2,338K NIH grant titled “Regulatory B Cell in the Amelioration of Immune-Mediated Periodontal Disease.” Together with the co-investigator on the grant, Dr. Toshi Kawai, D.D.S., Ph.D., at the same Department, the research team will strive […]

  Dmitriy Minond, PhD., principal investigator (PI) from College of Pharmacy and Rumbaugh Goodwin Institute for Cancer Research was recently awarded a three-year $573K Florida Department of Health Bankhead-Coley Cancer Research Program Discovery Science grant titled “Spliceosomal modulation for regulation of melanoma immunogenicity.” This grant will support three-year study to determine the effect of spliceosomal modulation on immune pathway signaling […]