Faculty Award Recipients

Spring 2023

INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AWARDS

(Awarded: $19,160 - Requested: $19,160)

Karin Goldberg, Geology ($11,160)

Natural contamination of groundwater by uranium in SE Kansas

Mark Weiss, A & P ($8,000)

Continuation of previous research

 

Faculty Award Recipients

Fall 2022

INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AWARDS

(Awarded: $45,000- Requested: $70,000)

Ryan Rafferty, Chemistry ($25,000)

Harnessing the power of natural products: fragment synthesis, modified natural product analogs, and new drug delivery platforms

Matt Basal, Anatomy and Physiology ($20,000)

Designing lipid-stabilized ionic liquid nanoparticles for combination gemcitabine/microwave hyperthermia treatment of pancreatic cancer

LINDERS FAMILY CANCER RESEARCH EXPANSION AWARDS

(Awarded: $20,000- Requested: $20,000)

Pankaj Baral, Biology ($20,000)

Targeting the nociceptive neuron signaling to γδ T cells to control lung adenocarcinoma

Spring 2022

INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AWARDS

(Awarded: $40,692 - Requested: $40,692)

Tendai Gadzikwa, Chemistry ($21,132)
Uniformly multifunctional MOF materials as scaffolds for multicomponent drug delivery systems

Masa Tamura, Anatomy & Physiology ($19,560)
Extending cancer immunotherapy to poor-responder colorectal cancers: Gene therapy with an oncolytic viral vector and novel PD-L1 and CTLA-4 blockade peptides

FLOSSIE WEST BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AWARD

(Direct Gift $125,000)

Anna Zolkiewska, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Immunotherapies for Breast Cancer

LINDERS FAMILY CANCER RESEARCH EXPANSION AWARDS

TBD

 

Fall 2021

INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AWARDS

(Awarded: $8,300 - Requested: $30,700)

Cen Wu – Statistics ($8,300)
Bayesian Analysis of Longitudinal Lipidomics Data in Cancer Prevention Studies

FACULTY TRAVEL

(Awarded: $1,900 – Requested: $1,900)

Mark Weiss – Anatomy & Physiology
Lisbon, Portugal, for translational chemistry conference

 

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