Biomedical Sciences Innovation Fund Winners

Below are the winners of the Biomedical Sciences Innovation Fund, a seed grant program created to fund collaborative efforts between biomedical scientists at SBU seeking to apply to externally funded research and training initiatives. 

Hwan Kim,  Jorge Benach, Erich Mackow, and Ilia Rochlin, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Andrew Handel, Department of Pediatrics: Understanding the biological significance of tick-borne polymicrobial infections

Markus Riessland, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Christine DeLorenzo, Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health and Biomedical Engineering, and Carine W. Maurer, Department of Neurology: Targeting neuroinflammation induced by senescent cells in Parkinson's Disease to improve outcomes

Markus Seeliger, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Ivet Bahar, Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Iwao Ojima, Department of Chemistry, and Robert Rizzo, Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics: Center for High Throughput Structure-Based Drug Discovery (SBU-DD)

Maya Shelly, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stanislaus Wong, Department of Chemistry, Milutin Stanacevic, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mathieu Coppey, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Curie Institute: Bio-Magnetogenetic Control of Spatially Restricted Intracellular Protein-Activity During Rodent Embryonic Neuronal Development And in Neurodevelopmental Pathologies

Charles Vorkas, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Luis Marcos, Department of Medicine, Jorge Benach, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Thomas MacCarthy, Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Andrew Handel, Department of Pediatrics: Innate lymphocyte responses to acute human babesiosis