Pilot Grant Awardees 2021-22

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Blue Awards ($20,000)

Drs. Mary S Himmelstein  (Psychological Sciences, Kent State University) and Kristen Knepp (Family and Community Medicine, NEOMED)

• Development and Pilot Testing of a Weight Stigma Reduction Program for Medical Students

Drs. Manabu Kurokawa (Biological Sciences, Kent State University), Takhar Kasumov (Pharmaceutical Sciences, NEOMED) and Wilson Chung (Biological Sciences, Kent State University)

• The Role of the E3 ligase Huwe1 in mental and intellectual disorders

Dr. Bradley Winters (Anatomy and Neurobiology, Hearing Research Group, NEOMED)

• Transcriptome analysis of cell types in the lateral superior olive sound localization network using PatchSeq

Gold Awards ($5,000)

Drs. Wilson Chung and Xiaozhen Mou (Biological Sciences, Kent State University)

• Brain-gut health consequences of chronic exposure to sublethal microcystin levels in drinking water

Drs. Colleen Novak and Helen Piontkivska (Biological Sciences, Kent State University)

• Probing the active kinome to understand brain regulation of thermogenesis