Busch Biomedical Grant (BBG)
Spring 2020 Busch Biomedical Grant Guidelines
Busch Biomedical Grant Frequently Asked Questions
Award amount up to $40,000 total for up to a two-year period ($20,000 per year)
Three categories of funding opportunities: Seed, Bridging and Collaborative
Please direct any questions to res-dev@rutgers.edu
2020 Busch Biomedical Grant Awardees
PI Name Proposal Title Type of Grant Andy Babwah Uterine KISS1R critically regulates ERα expression and signaling on the day of embryo implantation Seed Arnold Rabson Using human iPSC-derived brain organoids containing microglia to study HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders Collaborative Elizabeth Snyder ADAD1-mediated ribosome regulation in the post-meiotic male germ cell Seed Fei Zhang Molecular Recognition Assisted by Single-Stranded Nucleic Acid Nanostructures Seed Frank Jordan Pathogenic mechanism in metabolic crosstalk between lysine catabolism and the Krebs cycle Bridging Hong Li Axonal novel protein synthesis in retrograde neurotrophic signaling and brain injury Collaborative Howon Lee 4D Printing of a Transformable Organoid Culture Array for Rapid Drug Development Collaborative Huijuan Hu Role of store-operated calcium channels in itch Bridging Jean-Pierre Etchegaray Deciphering Epigenetic Dynamics driven by TET-mediated DNA oxidations during cellular rejuvenation Seed Jian Cao Hepatitis B virus hijacks the histone methyltransferase complex to drive hepatocellular carcinoma development Seed Joshua Miller The Gut Microbiome and Vitamin B12 Status in Humans Collaborative Laura Fabris Identification, Quantification, and Validation of Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers in Blood with a Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Sensing Platform Collaborative Lisa Payne Neural mechanisms of a clinical assessment of cognitive inhibitory control Seed Maxime Assous Regulation of striatal cholinergic interneuron activity and related behavior by ß2- containing nicotinic receptors. Collaborative Michael Mathews Modulation of the cellular transcriptome by SARS-CoV-2 Collaborative Moshmi Bhattahcarya Preclinical Validation of Novel Treatment for Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) Collaborative Pankaj Agarwalla Adenosine Kinase inhibition as a Novel Therapeutic Target in Glioma Collaborative Robert Wieder Predicting Adverse Events in Patients Receiving Multi-Modality Treatment for Breast Cancer Using Artificial Intelligence Collaborative Sridhar Kannurpatti Simultaneous multimodality translational imaging to advance treatments for Concussive Head Injuries Collaborative Srujana Samhita Yadavalli Functional analyses of small protein regulators in bacteria Seed Sue Shapses Sources of cytokines: the role of obesity Collaborative Tetsuya Nakamura The Genetic Mechanisms that Specify Two Distinct Types of Ossification Seed Vincent McGinty Reading and writing the neural code for value-based choice Seed Wei Vivian Li A novel approach for joint modeling of multi-patient single-cell gene expression data Seed Yihong Zhao Big data approach to neural correlates of risk behaviors for substance use initiation Bridging