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PrEP My Way: A hybrid type 1 clinical effectiveness-implementation trial to promote PrEP persistence among young Kenyan women
PROJECT SUMMARY. Significance: Young women account for 63% of all new HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa and are thus a high priority population for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrE...
Complement Activation in Sepsis
Every year, more than 75,000 children and 750,000 adults in the United States are admitted to an Intensive Care unit with a diagnosis of sepsis. Sepsis-associated acute kidney inju...
Igniting Hope in Buffalo New York Communities: Training the Next Generation of Health Equity Researchers
Buffalo, New York, the second largest city in New York State (population 278,349), has a diverse population, including 37% African American and 14% Latinx. One of the most pressing...
Epidemiologic study of microplastic pollution in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and its association with lung cancer
ABSTRACT An estimated 400 metric tons of plastic are produced each year worldwide and less than 10% is recycled. Microplastics (MPs) defined as particles
Unmasking the role of maternal transcript UTRs in reproductive fecundity
Project Summary: My lab is interested in defining how the maternal load is established during oogenesis and decoded af- ter fertilization. We know the identity of the most importan...
Metabolic Homeostasis Drives Regulatory Oscillations
Metabolism is the set of essential chemical reactions in all organisms, including humans, which sustain life. The reactants are called metabolites and represent thousands of distin...
Monitoring and increasing resilience of stem cell derived pancreatic islet cell grafts
Project Summary/Abstract Therapeutic options for people living with type 1 diabetes (T1D) are limited to lifelong management of glucose levels with exogenous insulin. Recently, Tep...
Collaborative Proposal: Facility: Magnetics Information Consortium Catalyzes Enhanced Cyberinfrastructure and FAIR Data Access Enabling Science Across Community Subdomains
The Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC) provides a web-based research facility that allows researchers and other users free access to archive, search, visualize, manipulate, d...
Coexistence of plant populations in a spatial continuum
In a recent paper of Etheridge et al. (Etheridge, et al. 2023), a new model for the dynamics of a plant population in a spatially heterogeneous environment is introduced. A particu...
Investigation of fluid-thermal-structural coupling for hypersonic control surface design
Project DescriptionThe structural design of a control surface affects temperature distribution and warping, which change the aerodynamic performance, therefore, the methodology to...
How Risk Attitudes are Affected by Paper and Realised Outcomes in Skill-Influenced Versus Pure-Luck Settings
How do investors and gamblers respond after incurring losses? Do they cut their losses and take more cautious actions, or do they take on additional risk in an attempt to break eve...
Dancing to your own music: A study of movement in music performance and its relationship to enjoyment andengagement in ADHD musicians
We often feel the spontaneous need to move to music we enjoy, and we interpret the movement of musicians assigns of musical engagement (Dahl & Friberg, 2007). Theories in m...
Research Project: Evaluating Green Infrastructure Impacts on Climate Change Related Heat, Air Quality, Flooding, and Cardiopulmonary Outcomes in Chicago
PROJECT SUMMARY RESEARCH PROJECT There is an urgent need to develop scientific evidence in support of effective strategies that will reduce climate impacts on vulnerable urban popu...
Developing and testing a measure of sociocultural norms related to interpregnancy intervals in African immigrants in the US.
PROJECT SUMMARY Despite the existence of guidelines from the World Health Organization and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommending an optimal interpreg...
Functions of LynA and LynB kinases in dendritic-cell pro-inflammatory signaling and lupus
ABSTRACT The Src-family kinase Lyn is critical for maintaining immune homeostasis and protecting against autoimmunity, and deficits in Lyn function are linked to systemic lupus ery...
CAREER: What is in a Voice?: Scientific and Machine Learning Advancement for Voice Conversion
Prior research and applications of voice conversion models have raised challenging problems that are both theoretical and use-inspired. Notable challenges include processing emotio...
ERI: Towards Robust and Secure Intelligent 3D Sensing Systems
The advancement of 3D sensing technology, integral to modern applications like autonomous driving, identity verification, and industrial design, represents a significant leap forwa...
Oculomotor Demands for Target Stabilization without Central Vision
ABSTRACT Central visual field loss due to diseases like age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a large and growing problem, particularly in the elderly. Although much has been d...
Dissecting the algorithmic and neural circuit basis of dopamine-driven learning in the striatum
Project Summary/Abstract The neurotransmitter dopamine (DA) is thought to play a central role in reward-based learning. The leading theory posits that DA release acts as a reward p...
Evaluating a powerful genetic mapping framework to discover lifespan extension genes in Drosophila
PROJECT SUMMARY A plethora of environmental factors contribute to inter-individual differences in lifespan, yet a significant genetic component to lifespan variation has been demon...