Listing of recent competitive grant awards to SOM faculty
The following is a list of new grants awarded to SOM faculty with project start dates in September of 2025 (the awards listed have a total award amount greater than $100,000):
| PI | Project Title | Sponsor | Award Amount | Project Begin Date |
| Barnes, Edward | Increasing Patient Engagement after Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis to Improve Outcomes | Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) | 300000 | 01-Sep-25 |
| Schiller, Crystal | Neuroplasticity and Menopause: Investigating Synaptic Adaptation and Mechanisms of Cognitive Resilience in Midlife Women and Beyond | Simons Foundation | 220000 | 01-Sep-25 |
| Tomaszewski, Brianne | Innovative Disability Employment Advancement with Leading-edge Technology Promoting Accommodations Resources and Technology Needs and Rights (IDEAL PARTNERs) | DHHS Administration for Community Living (ACL) | 500000 | 01-Sep-25 |
| Lazear, Helen | Investigating the Underlying Neurobiology of Herpes Simplex Virus Reactivation in Sensory Neurons | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | 195000 | 01-Sep-25 |
| Cook, Jean | Defining Intercellular Heterogeneity in Cell Cycle Quiescence | NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) | 627676 | 01-Sep-25 |
| Li, Tengfei | Tracking brain structural trajectories for early detection and prognosis of Alzheimer’s Disease | NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA) | 142607 | 01-Sep-25 |
| Wu, Guorong | Understanding the Selective Mechanism of Tau Propagation in Alzheimer’s Disease Through Multi-layer Spreading Pathways | NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA) | 420119 | 01-Sep-25 |
| Asrican, Brent | Implications of long-range Mossy Cell signaling and connectivity in AD | NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA) | 426674 | 01-Sep-25 |
| Stringer, Jeff | Assessment of Twin Gestation with AI Assisted Ultrasound | NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) | 541204 | 01-Sep-25 |
| Li, Tengfei | Infant Cognitive Growth Prediction via Centile-based Brain Development and Meta Matching | NIH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) | 413509 | 26-Sep-25 |
| Kim, William | Trispecific T-cell engagers for simultaneous, multivalent targeting of intracellular cancer-testis antigens | American Cancer Society (ACS) | 217500 | 01-Sep-25 |
| Legant, Wesley | Next-generation imaging to interrogate biological systems across time and space | NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) | 2257345 | 01-Sep-25 |
| Vigeland, Christine | The role of lipid metabolism in lung macrophage activity and phenotypes during acute lung injury | NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) | 233250 | 01-Sep-25 |
| Ferguson, Laura | RNA biomarkers for alcohol use disorder | NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) | 248844 | 01-Sep-25 |
| Chen, Dhruti | Identifying and Targeting Autoantigen Specific B cells in ANCA Vasculitis | NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) | 198032 | 01-Sep-25 |
| Barnes, Edward | Secondary Prevention of Pouchitis With Rifaximin | NIH National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) | 250056 | 15-Sep-25 |
| Hernandez, Michelle | Rescue anakinra treatment for moderate asthma attacks | NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) | 233250 | 15-Sep-25 |
| Stevens, Danielle | Phthalates and Phthalate Alternatives and Early Human Cardiometabolic Development | NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) | 249000 | 12-Sep-25 |
| Monahan, Torin | AI Systems in Management, Public Safety, and Research | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 215549 | 01-Sep-25 |
| Fedoriw, Yuri | Innovations in Molecular Diagnostic Approaches for HIV-associated Lymphomas. | NIH Fogarty International Center (FIC) | 344203 | 01-Sep-25 |
| Rutstein, Sarah | Reaching persons with HIV who are out of care through Expedited access to Long-Acting Injectable antiretroviral therapy – | NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) | 684765 | 23-Sep-25 |
| Stein, Jason | Modeling autism-associated gene-by-environment interactions in human brain organoids | NIH Office of the Director (OD) | 2273605 | 29-Sep-25 |
| Kim, William | Building on the Foundation of the Academy of Kidney Cancer Investigators | Vanderbilt University Medical Center | 193045 | 01-Sep-25 |