Completed major funding

As Principal Investigator / Faculty Mentor:

2016 – 2020

KBRWyle/National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA); Title: Integrative physiology of VIIP:cardiopulmonary, sleep, and cognitive function assessment during hypercapnic bed rest.

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?" A.T. Lovering PI

2015

Eugene & Clarissa Evonuk Memorial Graduate Fellowship in Environmental Physiology; Title: “Do humans with a patent foramen ovale have blunter ventilator and thermoregulatory responses to hot and cold environments?”

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:

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."

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."