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Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Multiple Sclerosis Implementation Network
Total fund: $750,000 | Co-Investigator (PI: Fernandez) | Avg %effort: 25%
Develop the Multiple Sclerosis Implementation Network (MSIN), a practice-based research network and learning collaborative of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) researchers and clinicians. Aim to advance MS research and care across the United States
2025-2026
National Institute of Health (NIH)/National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Trauma Resuscitation with Group O Whole Blood or Products (TROOP)
Total fund: $1,905,212 | Co-Investigator (PI: DeSantis) | Avg %effort: 10%
A pragmatic, multicenter, phase III randomized clinical trial to evaluate the clinical effectiveness and safety of whole blood, compared with component blood therapy in trauma patients predicted to require large volume blood transfusions.
2024-2027
U.S Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA)
BioTROOP Study: A multiomic bioanalysis of Trauma Resuscitation with Group O Whole Blood or Products (TROOP)
Total fund: $342,585 | Co-Investigator (PI: DeSantis) | Avg %effort: 8%
A companion study to perform multiomic bioanalyses of the TROOP trial (“bioTROOP”) that will leverage the trial’s existing infrastructure and collect blood samples from enrolled subjects in the minutes, hours and days following injury.
2024-2027
Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS)/Centers for Disease Control & Prevention DHHS (CDC)
Texas SARS-CoV-2 Variant Sequencing Study
Total fund: $14,124,185 | Co-Investigator (PI: Boerwinkle) | Avg %effort: 12.5%
Expand genomic sequencing of the virus that causes COVID-19. Sequence and study more COVID-19 samples from around the state to provide a better picture of circulating and emerging variants of the COVID-19 virus.
2021-2025
Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS)
Texas Coronavirus Antibody Response Surveillance
Total fund: $12,250,878 | Co-Investigator (PI: Boerwinkle) | Avg %effort: 27.5%
The main objective is to understand person, place, time, disparities and trends of COVID-19 to inform public health action and policy.
2020-2024
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology - U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) - US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
The PHIT Workforce Development Program: Creating a diverse and inclusive health information technology (IT) workforce in Texas
Total fund: $9,213,935 | Co-Investigator (PI: Boerwinkle) | Avg %effort: 10%
2021-2025
US Department of Defense (DOD)
Leveraging FITBIR Data to Improve Clinical Practice of Severe TBI
Total fund: $748,708 | Co-Investigator (PI: Yamal) | Avg %effort: 12.5%
Aims of this study: 1. Integrate and harmonize data from various multi-center TBI studies 2. Curate data from various multi-center TBI studies 3. To assess the association between the ways ICP is treated and long-term neurological outcomes
2020-2024
National Institute of Health (NIH) - Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
CTSA: RADX Phase II (COVID)
Total fund: $3,204,351 | Co-Investigator (PI: Fernandez) | Avg %effort: 2%
This study will leverage longstanding academic-community engaged partnership to examine SARS-CoV-2 infection patterns and identify dynamic disease hotspots and testing deserts in racially diverse neighborhoods of three Texas regions (Houston/Harris County, South Texas and Northeast Texas) and evaluate the rapid adaptation and deployment of multilevel intervention strategies to SARS-CoV-2 testing in vulnerable populations.
2021-2023
U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) - US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Community-Based Workforce Development and Mobilization to Increase COVID-19 Vaccination Equity in Texas
Total fund: $11,623,660 | Co-Investigator (PI: Fernandez) | Avg %effort: 8%
The goal is to increase COVID-19 vaccinations through the development and mobilization of existing community-based health and outreach workforces in the state of Texas.
2021-2023
Texas Department of State Health Service (TDSHS)
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Confidence (COVAHC) Survey: A Rapid Community Assessment in Texas
Total fund: $487,364 | Co-Investigator (PI: Cuccaro) | Avg %effort: 15%
2022-2022
National Institute of Health (NIH) - Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences
COVID-CTSA ECR RADx-UP
Total fund: $4,998,788 | Co-Investigator (PI: Fernandez) | Avg %effort: 3%
This study leverages longstanding academic-community engaged partnership to examine SARS-CoV-2 infection patterns and identify dynamic disease hotspots and testing deserts in racially diverse neighborhoods of three Texas regions (Houston/Harris County, South Texas and Northeast Texas) and evaluates the rapid adaptation and deployment of multilevel intervention strategies to SARS-CoV-2 testing in vulnerable populations.
2020-2022
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) - US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Assistance, Addressing Social Needs of High-Risk Patients through Screening and Navigation to Community Social Service Organizations
Total: $2,559,327 | Co-Investigator (PI: Highfield) | Avg %effort: 15%
The UTHealth School of Public Health team proposes to address the social needs in the ACH model, Assistance. In partnership with our UT Physicians, Memorial Hermann Hospital and Texas Children’s Hospital, we seek to apply an innovative asynchronous platform for screening and navigation of patients.
2020-2022
Harris County
SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance Testing Program for Harris County
Total: $16,985,172 | Co-Investigator (PI: Boerwinkle) | Avg %effort: 20%
The main objective is to enhance COVID-19 testing and understand the epidemiology and dynamics of COVID-19 in our Harris County and the city of Houston.
2020-2021
National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute (NHLBI) - National Institute of Health (NIH) / Clinical Pathology Labs (CPL)
Rapid Expansion of Existing Framework for Deploying Large-Scale COVID-19 RT-PCR Testing Platforms and Distributing Capacities. RADx Tech NIH Grant Sub
Total: $206,930 | Co-Investigator (PI: Melissa Valario) | Avg %effort: 25%
2020-2021
National Institute of Health (NIH)NIDCR
CATCH Healthy Smiles: A cluster-RCT of an elementary school oral health intervention
Total: $4,096,889 | Co-Investigator (PI: Sharma) | Avg %effort: 7%
This grant will allow us to plan for, and test the efficacy of an elementary school-based oral health intervention using a cluster-randomized controlled trial design across children from ethnically-diverse, low-income families in Houston, Texas.
2019-2022
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Computational Sciences Lab
Total: $93,872 | (PI: Ashraf Yaseen)
A project to establish a High-Performance Computing Multidisciplinary Research lab. Provides computing services, facilitates multidisciplinary research through collaboration, and trains faculty members and member students
2016-2018
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Development of Javelinas-Server for Predicting Protein Structural Features.
Total: $3,000 | (PI: Ashraf Yaseen)
2016-2017
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Security Engineering: Development of Curriculum and Research for Homeland Security
Total: $698,000 | Co-Investigator (PI: Selahattin Ozcelik) | Avg %effort: 15%
Security Engineering is a multidisciplinary minor program within the College of Engineering at TAMUK offered in support of preparing engineering and science students for careers in areas related to our nation’s security.
2015-2018
National Science Foundation (NSF)-TUES
Collaborative: TUES: Software Defined Radio Laboratory Platform for Enhancing Undergraduate Communication and Networking Curricula
Total: $100,000 | Role: Co-investigator.
Evolvable wireless laboratory design and implementation for enhancing undergraduate wireless engineering education in which the team developed and demonstrated lower cost, software defined radio (SDR) based laboratories for undergraduate courses.
Participating institutions: Wright State University (Lead), Miami University Oxford Campus, and Central State University
2013-2014
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