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
2020-2021, 2019-2020, 2018-19, 2017-18, 2016-17, 2015-16, 2014-15, 2013-14, 2012-13, Spring 2012