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Valley Research Partnership - Round Four Information

Round Four VRP Committee Members

VRP Scientific Review Committee Members (PDF).
VRP Joint Funding Committee Members (PDF).

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Valley Research Partnership Awards Fourth Round of Funding

Round Four Awardees:

Investigator Names	Type	Title of the Project	Funding
Ella Nikulina, PhD – UA College of Medicine – Phoenix, Associate Professor, Department of Basic Medical Sciences Megan Rudolph, MS – UA College of Medicine – Phoenix, Research Intern, Department of Basic Medical Sciences	P1	Elucidating the Neuronal Circuitry Underlying Social Stress-Induced Psychostimulant Sensitivity	$10,000
Jerome Lacombe, PhD – UA College of Medicine – Phoenix, Research Assistant Professor, Center for Applied NanoBioscience and Medicine Ashlee Harris, PhD – UA College of Medicine – Phoenix, PhD Student, Center for Applied NanoBioscience and Medicine	P1	Exploration of Plant-Based Scaffolds to Generate Engineered Skin Substitutes	$10,000
Karen Hastings, MD, PhD – UA College of Medicine – Phoenix, Associate Professor, Department of Basic Medical Sciences Jesse Washnock-Schmid – UA College of Medicine – Phoenix, MS Student, Department of Basic Medical Sciences	P1	The Role of MHC-II in Melanoma on Regulating the Anti-Tumor Immune Response	$10,000
Rachel Rowe, PhD – Assistant Professor, Translational Neurotrauma Research Program, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, and the UA College of Medicine – Phoenix, Department of Child Health J. Bryce Ortiz, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow, Translational Neurotrauma Research Program, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, and the UA College of Medicine – Phoenix, Department of Child Health	P1	Integrated Analyses of the Bidirectional Relationship between the Growth Hormone Axis and Sleep Following Juvenile TBI	$10,000
Shalini Sharma, PhD – UA College of Medicine – Phoenix, Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Medical Sciences William Martelly – UA College of Medicine – Phoenix, Graduate Student Intern, Department of Basic Medical Sciences	P1	Understanding Functions of the Myelodysplastic Syndrome Associated Splicing Factor SF3A1	$10,000
Theresa Thomas, PhD – Assistant Professor, Translational Neurotrauma Research Program, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, and the UA College of Medicine – Phoenix, Department of Child Health Gokul Krishna, PhD – Postdoctoral Research Associate I, Translational Neurotrauma Research Program, Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, and the UA College of Medicine – Phoenix, Department of Child Health	P1	Late-Onset Traumatic Brain Injury-Induced Anxiety-Like Behavior is Mediated through Changes in Gut Microbiota	$10,000
Dong Wang, MD, PhD – UA College of Medicine – Phoenix, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine Gregory Turner, PhD – Dignity Health, Program Manager, Preclinical Imaging, Keller Center for Imaging Innovation at Barrow Neurological Institute	P2	The Novel Role and Underlying Mechanism of Corin in Modulating Cardiomyocyte Survival after Ischemic Injury in Heart	$50,000
Taben Mary Hale, PhD – UA College of Medicine – Phoenix, Associate Professor, Department of Basic Medical Sciences Richard Frye, MD, PhD – Phoenix Children's Hospital, Professor, Department of Child Health	P2	Protecting cardiac and skeletal muscle against pediatric cancer chemotherapy: Understanding and unlocking new pathways	$50,000
Varina Boerwinkle, MD – Phoenix Children's Hospital, Associate Professor of Neurology Francisco Ponce, MD – Barrow Neurological Institute, Dignity Health Associate Professor of Neurosurgery	P2	Cerebral Palsy Interventions Elucidated by Resting State Functional MRI	$50,000