Funding & Awards
Current Major Funding
As Principal Investigator / Faculty Mentor:
2022 - 2023
KBRWyle/National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA)
Title: Validation of transcutaneous carbon dioxide measures under hyperdynamic conditions
2021 - 2023
KBR/National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA);
Title: Mechanical and gravitational countermeasures to ocular changes during strict head-down tilt bedrest
2021 – 2023
Pac-12 Student Athlete Project on the Impact of COVID-19;
Title: Impact of COVID-19 on student athlete lung function and diffusing capacity
As Co-Investigator/Consultant:
2021 – 2024
Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance-Innovation Hub
Title: Targeting Oxygen Delivery in Female Athletes for Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance
2023
NIH R41 Small Business Technology Transfer Grant (STTR)
Title: Novel Pigment Sensing Pulse Oximeter Technology for Mitigating Racial Bias in Oxygen Saturation Measurements
2023
Oregon Business Development Dept C2022876 (STTR Matching Grant); Title: Novel Pigment Sensing Pulse Oximeter
Technology for Mitigating Racial Bias in Oxygen Saturation Measurements
2023
Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) – Navy (ONR)
Title: Assessment of multi-system responses to acute stressors in humans using Ultrasound
Graduate Student Funding:
Karleigh Bradbury
2020 – 2025
DoD Science Mathematics & Research for Transformation (SMART) program
Aaron Betts
2021 – 2023
NASA HRP Short Term Investigation Proposal; Title: Mechanical and gravitational countermeasures to ocular changes during
strict head-down tilt bedrest
Completed Major Funding
As Principal Investigator / Faculty Mentor:
2021 – 2022
PADI Foundation Diving Physiology Grant; Title: Is SCUBA diving-induced pulmonary hypertension related to blood flow through patent foramen ovale and inflammation?
2019 & 2022
Fulbright Scholars Program; Title: "Investigating the role of intrapulmonary and intracardiac shunts in mediating breath-hold diving-induced and SCUBA diving-induced pulmonary hypertension."
2016 – 2020
National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA): “Assessment of breathing during sleep and carbon dioxide levels in participants living in a hypobaric chamber.”
2018 – 2019
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Collaborative Research Travel Grant Program; Title: "Is blood flow through IPAVA and PFO related to breath-hold induced pulmonary hypertension?"
2015 – 2019
AHA Grant in Aid: "Does patent foramen ovale closure improve exercise capacity and prevent blood flow through intrapulmonary shunt?"
2012 – 2016
Parker B. Francis Families Foundation; Title: "Inflammation impairs respiratory plasticity."
2010 – 2014
Defense Medical Research & Development Program; Title: "Prediction of susceptibility to acute mountain sickness using hypoxia-induced intrapulmonary arteriovenous shunt and intracardiac shunt fractions."
2009 – 2014
AHA Scientist Development Grant (SDG 2280238); Title: "Cardiopulmonary responses to exercise and hypoxia in adult survivors of BPD."
2012 – 2013
Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) – Navy (ONR); Title: "Multidimensional ultrasound assessment of blood flow & perfusion during challenges to homeostasis in humans."
2010 – 2012
American Thoracic Society/American Lung Association; Title: "Prevention of intrapulmonary arteriovenous shunting in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)."
2008 – 2009
Oregon Health & Science University Foundation, MRF Grant; Title: "Oxygen mediated regulation of intrapulmonary arteriovenous shunting in healthy humans."
As Co-Investigator/Consultant:
2020 – 2021
Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Department of Defense; Title: Is prolyl hydroxylase inhibition sufficient to induce acclimatization to high altitude?
2020 – 2021
Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC); Title: DopingOmics-Omics analyses to identify doping biomarkers at low or high altitudes
2011 – 2012
Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) – Army; Title: "Assessment of blood flow and perfusion during challenges to homeostasis in humans."
2009 – 2012
Alberta Health Services Emerging Research Teams Grant; Title: "Cardio-respiratory function, school age abilities and quality of life in extremely low birth weight infants."
Graduate Student Funding:
Jacob Kysar
2017 – 2018
ACSM NW Research Grant; Title: "Does PFO exacerbate inflammation and reduced physical activity in patients with vasculitis?"
Frank Petrassi
2013 – 2017
US ARMY Predoctoral Fellowship; Title: "Effect of hypobaria on regulation on pulmonary blood flow."
2015
Eugene & Clarissa Evonuk Fellowship in Environmental Physiology; Title: "Blood flow through intrapulmonary arteriovenous anostomoses: conciliation of inconsistencies with data obtained in hypobaria and body positioning studies."
Jim Davis
2015
Eugene & Clarissa Evonuk Memorial Graduate Fellowship in Environmental Physiology; Title: “Do humans with a patent foramen ovale have blunted ventilatory and thermoregulatory responses to hot and cold environments?”
JJ Duke
2014
Oregon Health & Science University, Foundation Grant – Early Clinical Investigator; Title: "Mitigation of cardiopulmonary sequelae associated with bronchopulmonary dysplasia."
Jonathan Elliott
2012 – 2014
American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship; Title: "Epinephrine-induced recruitment of intrapulmonary arteriovenous anastomoses in healthy humans at rest."
American Lung Association Lung Health Dissertation Grant; Title: "Epinephrine-induced recruitment of intrapulmonary arteriovenous shunt in healthy humans at rest."
Eugene & Clarissa Evonuk Memorial Graduate Fellowship in Environmental Physiology; Title: "Pulmonary gas exchange efficiency: Revisiting the paradigm."
Steve Laurie
2011 – 2012
Eugene & Clarissa Evonuk Memorial Graduate Fellowship in Environmental Physiology 2011; Title: "Intrapulmonary arteriovenous anastomoses contribute to pulmonary gas exchange inefficiency during exercise in healthy humans."