Pilot Grant 2023-24 Awardees

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Blue Awards ($20,000)

Drs. Melissa K. Edler (Anthropology, Kent State University) and William D. Hopkins (Comparative Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center)

• The effects of aging and Alzheimer’s disease pathology on vascular-associated proteins in chimpanzees and humans

Drs. Woo Shik Shin and Christine Crish (Pharmaceutical Sciences, NEOMED)

• Developing Combination Therapies for Amyloid beta-dependent and -independent tau aggregation

Gold Awards ($5,000)

Dr. Joseph Bedont (Biological Sciences, Kent State University)

• Does sleep debt increase sugar preference?

Dr. Meghan Edmondson (College of Nursing, Kent State University)

• Effect of Low, Moderate, and High Intensity Exercise on Executive Function, Functional Impairment, and Symptom Severity in ADHD

Drs. Helen Piontkivska and Colleen Novak (Biological Sciences, Kent State University)

• ADAR editing changes in brain of high and low aerobic capacity rats in response to inflammation