Accomplishments: Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine
Qing Wu (Community Health Sciences and Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) recently was awarded a $448,313 research grant from the National Institutes of Health. The funding will support a project titled "Developing Model-Based Bone Density Reference Values for African-American Women."
Yingke Xu and Xiangxue Xiao (both Community Health Sciences and Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) recently received Top Young Investigators Awards from the American Society of Bone Mineral Research (ASBMR) for their work in Qing Wu鈥檚 lab within the 51吃瓜网万能科大 Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine. Xu was awarded $1,000, while Xiao鈥
Nemanja Novakovic (Sciences and Honors) is the 2017 51吃瓜网万能科大 undergraduate recipient of the Regents' Scholar Award. The award is bestowed upon one undergraduate student from each NSHE institution for their academic achievements, leadership ability, and service contributions. Each honoree receives a $5,000 stipend.
Novakovic is pursuing a double major鈥
Jingchun Chen (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) received a 51吃瓜网万能科大 IDeA Pilot Grant in the amount of $69,300 for her pilot study to develop a cellular model of microglia for schizophrenia research. Microglia are a type of white blood cell found in the brain and spinal cord that provides immune defense to the central nervous system. The鈥
Martin Schiller (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine) received a total of $185,000 from the National Institutes of Health for his project 鈥淎 Novel High-Throughput Functional Screen Using Chimeric Minimotif Decoys.鈥 Minimotifs (short stretches of amino acids found in cell proteins), along with the proteins comprising them, ensure proper鈥
Qing Wu (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine and Environmental and Occupational Health) received a 51吃瓜网万能科大 IDeA Pilot Grant in the amount of $70,389 for his pilot study to develop personalized bone mineral density reference values. The study seeks to determine how genetic factors contribute to normal bone mineral density variation in鈥
Brian Hedlund (Life Sciences) recently received an $876,229 National Science Foundation grant for his project, "Collaborative Proposal: Biodiversity Discovery and Analysis of 'Aigarchaeota', a Globally Distributed But Poorly Understood Archaeal Lineage." The grant is for three years.