RESEARCH GRANTS
Researchers at the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences annually receive generous grants from such organizations as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and various science labs. These funds are used to support important research that can potentially effect individuals throughout the world.
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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI) |
FUNDING AGENCY |
TITLE |
| Ackerman, Robert. | Purdue | Social Aggression: Growth, Outcomes, and Digital Communication |
| Basak, Chandramallika | SBIR-Posit Science Inc. | Plasticity-based Adaptive Cognitive Remediation for Alzheimer’s Disease Phase II |
| Basak, Chandramallika | NIH | Strategic Training to Optimize Neurocognitive Functions in Older Adults |
| Benham, Sara | NIH-F31 | Novel Phonological Sequence Learning in Early Typical and Atypical Development |
| Burton, Michael | NIH | K22 — The Role of Cell-specific TLR-4 Signaling in Developing Chronic Pain |
| Burton, Michael | American Pain Society-gift | Research for Uncovering Cell-specific Mechanisms in Sex Differences in TLR4-dependent Pain |
| Chapman, Sandra | UTSW | Enhancement of Cognitive Brain Performance in Service Members – Active Duty and Veterans – Cooperative IAC w/UTSW |
| Dussor, Greg | Alder BioPharmaceuticals Inc. | SRA — Does an Anti-CGRP Antibody Inhibit Pain in a Stress-Driven Pain Chronification Model |
| Dussor, Greg | NIH | Peroxynitrite and Migraine |
| Dussor, Greg | NIH | Meningeal Prolactin Signaling and Female-Selective Migraine Mechanisms |
| Dussor, Greg | CerSci Therapeutics, Inc. | STTR: Non-Metal PN Scavenger/Decomposition Catalysts for Treatment of Migraine |
| Dussor, Greg | Teva Branded Pharmaceutical Products | CGRP-based Preclinical Migraine Studies |
| Filbey, Francesca | Oregon Health and Science University / NIH-NIAAA | fMRI and Treatment Response with Binge Drinking Adolescents |
| Filbey, Francesca | NIH | The Role of Motivation and Control in Cannabis Use Disorders: A Cross-Cultural Longitudinal Neuroimaging Study |
| Filbey, Francesca | NIH | Motor Learning Deficits in Cannabis Users |
| Goffman, Lisa | NIH | Sequential Pattern Learning in Children with Developmental Language Disorder |
| Golden, Richard | UTD | SEED: Social: Assessing the Core Assumptions of Cognitive Diagnostic Knowledge Tracing |
| Hart, John | Congressional Directed Medical Research | Treatment of Memory Disorders in Gulf War Illness with High Definition Transcranial Direct Cortical Stimulation |
| Hart, John | Rainwater Charitable Foundation | Study the Mechanism and Sequence of Pathological Change of How TBI Leads to Dementia in NFL Players |
| Hart, John | US Army MRAA | Multi-Site Confimatory Efficacy Treatment Trial of Combat-related PTSD |
| Hart, John | MGH Institute of Health Professions | Speech Movement Classification for Diagnosing and Treating ALS |
| Kane, Heidi | Jerry M. Lewis, M.D. Mental Health Research Foundation (Formerly Timberlawn) Gift | Marriage, Sleep and Health |
| Katz, William | UTD | SEED: SPIRe: Developing and Testing Speech-simulation Capabilities for Opti-speech Software |
| Kennedy, Kristen | NIH-National Institute on Aging | Dopaminergic and Neuroplastic Influences on Longitudinal Change in Cognitive and Brain Aging |
| Kilgard, Michael – TxBDC | Wings for Life | Promoting Recovery from Cervical Spinal Cord Injury by Pairing Rehabilitation with Vagus Nerve Stimulation |
| Kilgard, Michael – TxBDC | International Rett Syndrome Foundation Research Grant | Reversing Speech Sound Processing Deficits in Rett Syndrome |
| Kilgard, Michael – TxBDC | NIH | Vagus Nerve Stimulation Paired with Rehabilitative Training to Enhance Plasticity |
| Kilgard, Michael – TxBDC | Teliatry Inc. | SRA: Medical Implant Device Technology Development |
| Kilgard, Michael – TxBDC | CDMRP | Hearing Restoration through Synaptic Plasticity Directed by Vagus Nerve |
| Kilgard, Michael – TxBDC | DARPA | Targeted Neuroplasticity Training to Accelerate Complex Skill Learning |
| Krawczyk, Daniel | Congressional Directed Medical Research (CDMRP) | Improving Cognitive and Functional Deficits after TBI Using Virtual Technology |
| Kroener, Sven | NIH-1R21 | Vagus Nerve Stimulation as a Tool to Modulate Synaptic Plasticity During Extinction from Drug Seeking |
| Kroener, Sven | NIH-co-PI with Heng Du | Mitochondrial ATP Synthase Dysfunction and Synaptic Stress in Alzheimer’s Disease |
| Kroener, Sven | NSF-co-PI with Zhenping Qin | NCS-FO:Sub-Millisecond Optically-Triggered Compound Release to Study Real-Time Brain Activity and Behavior |
| Kroener, Sven | NIH-co-PI with Heng Du | GHSR1a and Hippocampal Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease |
| Le Prell, Colleen | Henry M. Jackson Foundation | Functional Impairments in Service Members with Normal Audiometric Thresholds |
| Le Prell, Colleen | 3M Company | SRA: Audibility and Hazardous Noise Exposure: Workers Expresses Needs and the Impact of Hearing Protection |
| Lobarinas, Edward | NIH-1RO1 | Effect of Inner Hair Cell Loss and Afferent Damage on Functional Hearing |
| Maguire, Mandy | NSF | How Poverty Impacts Brain and Language Development: Understanding the Vocabulary Gap |
| McIntyre Rodriguez, Christa | Univ. of Iowa/NIH | Neural Pathways Modulating Memory Consolidation |
| Mills, Candice | NSF | Collaborative Research: How Recognizing Gaps in Explanations Influences Children’s Interest in Learning |
| Motes, Michael | UTSW | Longitudinal Continuation of TARCC Hispanic Cohort |
| O’Toole, Alice | NI of Justice | Design and Implementation of Forensic Facial Identification Experts Test |
| O’Toole, Alice | DOE: Subcontract Oak Ridge National Lab | Automated Identity Masking: Advanced Experimental Design, Analysis, and Non-Facial Confounders |
| O’Toole, Alice | NIH-R01 | Human Face Representation in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks |
| O’Toole, Alice | University of Maryland: Subcontract IARPA | Janus Program Trabsition Research on Optimized Algorithms |
| Owen, Margaret | NIH/University of Georgia | Quality of Early Mother-Child Communication and Language Outcome in Low-Income Hispanic Children |
| Owen, Margaret | NIH/University of Georgia | Self-Regulation Development and the Transition to Middle School |
| Park, Denise | NIH | Dallas Lifespan Brain Study-Wave 3: Neurodegeneration and Resilience in Cognition |
| Park, Denise | NIH | Impact of Challenging Engagement on Cognition in Older Adults: A Clinical Trial |
| Park, Denise | SMU | The Dallas Asthma Brain and Cognition Study |
| Phensy, Aarron | NIH-F31 | The Role of the mPTP-regulating Protein Cyclophilin D in Oxidative Stress in a Developmental Rodent Model of Schizophrenia |
| Pinkham, Amy | NIH-R21 | Investigating a Neurobehavioral Mechanism of Paranoia |
| Pinkham, Amy | NIH-R01 | Introspective Accuracy, Bias, and Everyday Functioning in Severe Mental Illness |
| Pinkham, Amy | NIH-subaward Iniversity of California San Diego | Social Cognition and Suicide in Psychotic Disorders |
| Ploski, Jonathan | NIH-R56 | Molecular Basis for the Induction of Reconsolidation Updating |
| Prager, Karen | Jerry M. Lewis, M.D. Mental Health Research Foundation (Formerly Timberlawn) | Paving the Way to Improved Marital Well-Being |
| Price, Ted | NIH-RO1 | Protease Activated Receptor Type 2 Targeting for Migraine Pain |
| Price, Ted | SRA-Merck Sharp & Dohme | SRA: In Situ Hybridization on Human DRG |
| Price, Ted | NIH | Sex-specific Regulation of Local Translation and Chronic Pain Mechanisms in Females |
| Price, Ted | AlderBiopharmaceuticals Inc.-SRA | Testing Agreement: Does an Anti-CGRP Antibody Inhibit Pain in the Hyperalgesix Priming Model? |
| Price, Ted | NIH-R01 | Translation Control of Pain Plasticity |
| Price, Ted | UTD | Licensing Accelerator Pilot Award-NIH Protease Actived Receptor Type 2 Targeting for Migraine Pain |
| Rennaker, Robert | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Closed-loop Neuromodulation to Treat PTSD |
| Rennaker, Robert | W. W. Caruth, Jr. Foundation | Targeted Plasticity Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury |
| Rodrigue, Karen | Alzheimers Association | Links between Brain Iron and Beta-amyloid Deposition in Aging and MCI |
| Rodrigue, Karen | NIH | Mechanisms and Predictors of Brain Aging in Healthy Aging, Preclinical AD and MCI |
| Rojas, Raul | Jerry M. Lewis, M.D. Mental Health Research Foundation (Formerly Timberlawn) | Tracking the Early Bilingual Language Growth of Spanish-speaking Children in Dallas: Impact of Exogenous and Endogenous Factors |
| Rojas, Raul | University of Houston | Identification of Reading and Language Disabilities in Spanish-Speaking English Learners |
| Rojas, Raul | Momentous Institute-MOU | Research on Bilingual Language Development and Academic Achievement in Early Childhood Program at Momentous School |
| Rollins, Pam | THECB | Autism grant Program-Innovative Treatment Models |
| Rugg, Michael | NIH-R01 | Relationship Between Neural Correlates of Episodic Memory, Age, Memory Performance |
| Rugg, Michael | NSF | Effects of Age on Specificity and Control of Recollected Content |
| Rypma, Bart | National Multiple Sclerosis Society | The Effect of Neural-Vascular Coupling Changes on Cognitive Performance in Multiple Sclerosis |
| Rypma, Bart | National Multiple Sclerosis Society | Role of Astrocytes in Neural-vascular Coupling and its Dysfunction in MS |
| Rypma, Bart | UTSW | ICC- GMO 190905 Support for Dinesh Sivaklundu for MRI Physiological Measures of Disease with MRI Studies from Healthy Controls, Patients with non-specific White Matter Disease and Multiple Sclerosis Patients |
| Rypma, Bart | UTD-Major Extramural Grant Award (MEGA) | Development of Calibrated fMRI at the UTD Brain Health Imaging Center |
| Sasson, Noah | THECB | Autism Grant Program-Parent-Directed Treatment |
| Spence, Jeffrey | UTSW-subward | BOLD and its Discontents:Age-differences in the Neurophysiology of fMRI Signal |
| Thorn, Catherine | Vulintus, Inc. | Home Cage System for Fine Motor Assessments in Aging Rodent Models |
| Vanneste, Sven | Congressional Directed Medical Research Program | Direct Current Stimulation for Pain Treatment of Gulf War Illness |
| Wig, Gagan | James McDonnell Foundation | Autism Grant Program |
| Wig, Gagan | NSF | EAGER: Modifying Human Cognition using Targeted Non-invasive Stimulation of Large-scale Brain Networks |