Congratulations to six of our distinguished faculty members who have been recognized in the 2024 Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List for their exceptional contributions to scientific research over the past year.
News from Research at LSU Health Shreveport
Mohammad Alfrad Nobel Bhuiyan, PhD, Assistant Professor and Director of Biostatistics and Computational Biology awarded $219,000 (per year) from NIGMS "Redox, Environmental, and Metabolomics: investigating Disease Yield (REMEDY)."
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
Best of Times Radio - Tune in to listen to Dr. Cherie-Ann Nathan, LSUHS Chair of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery discuss clinical trials and the recently named top researchers from LSUHS.
KTBS3 - More than 70 students have spent their summer at LSUHS participating in summer research programs that provide access to pursue a career in healthcare or science.
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.
LSU - The LSU-led Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science network (including LSU Health Shreveport) has helped secure more than $210 million in external and mostly federal grants to fund disease-related research.
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