Honors and Awards

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.

More than $5 million in highly competitive grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was recently awarded to two researchers at LSU Health Shreveport studying infectious diseases and cardiovascular diseases.

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.”