Meaghan Creed, PhD, Wayland Cheng, MD, PhD, and Jordan McCall, PhD, recently received their first R01 or R35 research grants from the National Institutes of Health.
Three junior PIs secure major grant awards from NIH
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Mild forms of birth asphyxia could have detrimental consequences for the developing brain
In a recent study published in JCI Insight, Arvind Palanisamy, MD, and collaborators show that even short-lived hypoxic insults induce long-term neurodevelopmental dysfunction, especially in males.
Baron Chanda, PhD, joins Department of Anesthesiology
Dr. Chanda joined the School of Medicine as Professor of Anesthesiology with secondary appointments in the Departments of Biochemistry and Neuroscience.
Department ranks 4th in country in NIH funding in 2019
The department received more than $13.2 million from the NIH, and seven faculty ranked in the top 100 for total NIH funding to individual anesthesia principal investigators.
Dr. Arvind Palanisamy wins best scientific paper award at the annual meeting of SOAP
The Department of Anesthesiology is pleased to announce that Dr. Arvind Palanisamy, MD, FRCA, won the best paper award for his abstract, ‘Effect of uterine hypercontractility on the placenta and the fetal brain’, at the recently concluded annual meeting of the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) in Miami, FL. In a pregnant rat […]
Richard S. Hotchkiss, MD finds new way to fight sepsis
This story originally appeared here. While many people have never heard of sepsis, it causes about 250,000 deaths annually in the United States. The condition develops when an infection triggers an overwhelming immune response, ultimately wreaking havoc on the immune system. Standard treatment involves high doses of antibiotics that fight the infection, but they often […]