External Grants and Awards

Saint Louis University researchers have received grants and awards from federal agencies, organizations and other external funders to further research in medicine, science, and the humanities. 

Summer 2024 Awards

• The principal investigator • Noor Al-Hammadi, Ph.D., assistant professor of health and clinical outcomes research
• The grant • $538,880 from the National Institutes of Health
• The study • To develop and evaluation the performance of statistical and machine learning algorithms for accurate Warfarin dosing refinement. 

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• The principal investigator • Elise Alspach, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular microbiology and immunology 
• The grant • $299,786 from the Cancer Research Institute 
• The study • To investigate the interaction between sex and obesity in cancer immunotherapy response

• The principal investigator • Elise Alspach, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular microbiology and immunology 
• The grant • $959,000 from the American Cancer Society 
• The study • To explore why cancer immunotherapy treatments have a varying level of effectiveness based on sex 

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• The principal investigator • David Brinker, director of SLU’s Museum of Contemporary Religious Art 
• The grant • $8,000 from the Collections Assessment for Preservation Program 
• The study • A needs assessment for a preservation effort in MOCRA’s collection

 

• The principal investigator • David Brinker, director of SLU’s Museum of Contemporary Religious Art

• The grant • $8,000 from the Regional Arts Commission
• The study • To support “Meditations: Black Expression, Abstraction, and the Spirit – Live!,” a public program featuring Black creatives and scholars in conversation

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• The principal investigator • Qinglei Cao, Ph.D., assistant professor in computer science
• The grant • $22,725 from the U.S. Department of Energy
• The study • To aid in performance optimization of ultrahigh-resolution for the DoE’s (Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) Land Model Simulation project

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• The principal investigator • Claire Gilbert, Ph.D., associate professor of early modern history 
• The grant • $12,600 from the Linda Hall Library 
• The study • To explore works that attest to language learning, translation and cross-cultural exchange in European and Moroccan traditions at Linda Hall Library

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• The principal investigator • Kate Holdener, Ph.D., assistant professor in computer science
• The grant • $654,610 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• The study • To fund Open Source with SLU (OSS), a pioneering software engineering lab at Saint Louis University, which advances scholarship and engages graduate and undergraduate students in open-source software development.

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• The principal investigator • Lisa Jaegers, Ph.D.,  associate professor of occupational science and occupational therapy 
• The grant • $81,900 from the Raskob Foundation 
• The study • To provide occupational therapy to help long-term incarcerated individuals re-acclimate to the community and find employment.
   
• The principal investigator • Lisa Jaegers, Ph.D., associate professor of occupational science and occupational therapy 
• The grant • $20,000 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health  
• The study • To study unintentional exposure to opioids among first responders .

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• The principal investigator • Sergey Korolev, Ph.D., associate professor in biochemistry and molecular biology
• The grant • $743,852 from the National Science Foundation
• The study • To fund the state-of-the-art Xta LAB Synergy-R single crystal diffractometer, strengthening SLU's footprint in structural biology. 

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• The principal investigator • Michael Landry, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics
• The grant • $198,560 from the National Science Foundation
• The study • To better understand the structure of the Thurston norm by relating geometry, topology and dynamics in three dimensions.

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• The principal investigator • Dan Warren, Ph.D., professor in Biology and Mickey Ariel, Ph.D., professor in Pharmacology and Physiology
• The grant • $700,000 from the National Science Foundation
• The study • To study the neurophysiological basis of anoxia tolerance in turtles and support an outreach program called TRTLE: Teaching Research with Turtle Life-history and Ecophysiology. 

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Written by the public relations and internal communications staff in the Division of Marketing and Communications, with grant and award information provided by the Office of the Vice President for Research.