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TGF-Beta Regulates CFTR-Mediated Airway Smooth Muscle Dysfunction
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a lethal genetic disorder characterized by progressive lung disease and airway obstruction. CF is caused by mutations in the CF tra...
Identifying patient subgroups that are most likely to benefit from medications used to treat alcohol use disorder
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The objective of this K01 award is to provide Dr. Joshua Wallach, an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, with the prot...
Understanding affective processing of scientific evidence to promote informed choice for breast cancer screening
Project Summary/Abstract Cancer screening for the right patients at the right level of cancer risk can save lives, but over the last several years many expert groups have de-intens...
METABOLISM: accelerator Mass SpEctrometry to quanTify nanoplastics and decipher their fAte and Behavior in envirOnmentaL and bIological SysteMs
Studies investigating the effects of nanoplastics (NPs) on aquatic organisms used concentrations between 2 to 7 order-of-magnitudes higher than those predicted in the open ocean in...
Elucidating the roles of the beta-2 adrenergic receptor and epidermal growth factor receptor in flavivirus NS1-mediated endothelial dysfunction
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Research Project: Dengue virus (DENV) is a medically important pathogen posing a major public health threat. DENV infection can result in potentially fatal...
Inhibitory neuron dysfunction in intellectual disability and epilepsy
PROJECT SUMMARY CASK encodes the synaptic protein calcium/calmodulin-dependent serine protein kinase and is one of the five most common X-linked genes with de novo variants in deve...
Antag0onistic histone modifiers coordinate flooding stress tolerance and memory in plants
Flooding is an increasing problem around the world. In addition to having devastating effects on people's homes and businesses, it severely impacts livestock and crop survival...
Structurally Defining rBH3 Interactions
Project Summary This project will utilize protein purification and structure techniques to determine how a novel protein motif, known as the reverse Bcl-2 homology 3 (rBH3) motif b...
CAREER: Networks in General Equilibrium
Firms, industries, and countries form an interconnected network through production, trade, and technological linkages. Any changes in the local economic environment will have rippl...
Harnessing machine learning to develop new antibiotics for Neisseria gonorrhoeae
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT This proposal presents a five-year research and career development plan focused on machine learning (ML)-guided antibiotic development for multidrug-resist...
Effect of senescent cells
Summary The induction and maintenance of adaptive immune responses are critical for effective and durable protection against diverse pathogens and the efficacy of vaccines. Yet it...
An interactive, narrative intervention to address the mental health treatment gap among young people living with HIV in Nigeria
PROJECT SUMMARY Young people living with HIV (Y-PLWH) have poor adherence to antiretroviral therapy and engagement in HIV care, making HIV the leading cause of death for African ad...
Optimising general practice support for autistic adults: A realist review.
Aim: To find out how, why, and to what extent general practice supports autistic adults without co-occurring intellectual disabilities throughout their lives, in order to suggest i...
Future Families: Climate Justice, Intimate Life and the Adaptation of the Human
My research asks how the climate emergency is changing our understandings of what it means to be human. All over the world, people are adjusting their expectations about how to liv...
Investigating cerebellar microglia diversity through development and injury
BBSRC strategic theme: Understanding the rules of lifeAs the central nervous system has no inherent capacity for repair upon injury or neuronal loss, recent research has focused on...
Functionalised Biopolymers for Regenerative and Therapeutic Soft Robotics
Functionalised Biopolymers for Regenerative and Therapeutic Soft RoboticsDegenerative diseases continuously deteriorate tissue functionality with prolonged cellular senescence and...
Delivering win-wins for conservation and production in oil palm plantations: Determining links between habitat restoration, biodiversity, and yield
Oil palm is currently grown across more than 18 million hectares of the tropics. It has the highest yield per hectare of all vegetable oil crops, and therefore forms a critical com...
Implicit Neural Representations for Facial Animation
Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) are a type of implicit neural representation that uses neural networks to model complex visual data without explicitly defining their parameters. In...
Alteration to existing mortuary spaces and additional burials during the Old Kingdom through early Middle Kingdom (c.2686-c.1991 BCE)
This project examines the practice of incorporating additional burials into existing mortuary spaces during the Egyptian Old through Early Middle Kingdoms (c.2686-c.1991 BCE) to un...
Extreme Heat and Inequity: Assessing Cooling Poverty, Exposure, and Root Causes
Climate change and resulting rising extreme heat are projected to triple the demand for cooling by 2050. Within this context, the lack of access to affordable cooling, broadly refe...