$18,490,000

Manikandan Panchatcharam, PhD awarded a five-year, $1.6M R01 grant from the NIH's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Xiaohong Lu, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Neuroscience, awarded a one-year $506,052 R56 grant from the NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

J. Dedrick Jordan, MD, PhD, MSQM, MBA, Professor and Chair of Neurology, was recently awarded a four-year $1,460,000 USAMRAA grant from the Department of Defense for his project, “Photobiomodulation Therapy Could be a Potential Treatment Strategy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder."

Md. Shenuarin Bhuiyan, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology and Translational Pathobiology, was recently awarded a five-year $3,301,470 R01 grant from the NIH National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for his project, “Novel mitophagy regulatory mechanism in heart failure."

A. Wayne Orr, PhD, Professor and Director of the Research Division for Pathology and Translational Pathobiology, and Center for Cardiovascular Diseases and Sciences Director, received a 5-year $2,87 million R01 grant from the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for his project, "EphA2 regulation of atherosclerotic smooth muscle phenotype." 

Matthew Woolard, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, is the Principal Investigator awarded a $2.2M 4-year ROI grant by the National Institute of Health.

Hui-Chao (Reggie) Lee, PhD, LSUHS Assistant Professor of Neurology, is the Principal Investigator on a 3-Year Transformational Project Award funded by the American Heart Association for $300,000.

Jeremy Kamil, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, is the Principal Investigator awarded a $2M 5-year ROI competing continuation grant by the National Institute of Health.

Hong Sun, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, was awarded a $1.8M 5-year R01 competing continuation  grant from the NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Krista Rodgers, PhD, was recently awarded an NIH RO1 grant entitled “Mechanisms of Juvenile Neurogenesis and Post-Stroke Recovery:  Determining the Role of Age-Associated Neuroimmune Interactions” from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Art Yurdagul, PhD, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, was awarded a $2.8M 5-year ROI Grant by the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Nirav Dhanesha, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Translational Pathobiology, received a 5-year $2.24 million R01 grant from the NIH’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for his project “Mechanisms for Deep Vein Thrombosis following Stroke.”

Oren Rom, PhD, RD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Translational Pathobiology, has been awarded a 5-year, $1.6 million R01 grant from the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) for his project, “Lipidated Amino Acids in Cardiometabolic Diseases.”

The Center for Redox Biology and Cardiovascular Disease CoBRE at LSU Health Shreveport, led by Principal Investigator Chris Kevil, PhD, was awarded a $730,000 supplement award from the NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) for “SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Surveillance in North Louisiana.”

School of Graduate Studies student Brenna Pearson-Gallion was awarded a F31 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) for her project “EphA2 in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease”.

Shreveport Times - LSU Health Shreveport is planning to revitalize the local landmark Sears space in Mall St. Vincent and turn it into a state-of-the-art research facility. This will help attract more world-class funded researchers and give them the space they need to thrive.

World Heart Day, Sept. 29, raises awareness about cardiovascular diseases and preventive measure to manage heart disease. LSUHS is honored to have been selected as one of 60 sites in the world to participate in the CORVIA Shunt Clinical Trial for HFpEF patients who have been shown in prior studies to benefit from shunting and have no pulmonary vascular disease or pacemakers.

Congratulations to Molecular and Cellular Physiology faculty, Dr. Arif Yurdagul for making Stanford University's "World's Top 2% Scientists List".

KTBS - The first Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference was held in Shreveport in 1982. LSU Health Shreveport was excited to bring the conference back home for the big 40-year anniversary.

Shreveport Times - On Sept. 13, LSUHS announced that the school had purchased the former Sears property located at Mall St. Vincent. This facility will be transformed into a state-of-the-art research facility within the next two years.

KTAL - LSU Health Shreveport is “aiming high” and thinking big, as it will run out of laboratory and office space in the next two years. The old Sears building at Mall St. Vincent will become a cancer and cardiovascular research space.

KTBS - The $50 million project was made possible through a partnership between LSUHS leadership and the LSU Health Sciences Foundation, which purchased the property. It should be up and running in less than two years.

In response to continued growth in externally funded research over the last several years, LSU Health Shreveport announced plans today to reimagine the former Sears property located at Mall St. Vincent as a state-of-the-art research facility.

Manikandan Panchatcharam, PhD awarded a five-year, $1.6M R01 grant from the NIH's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism