Recent Grants Awarded to Center for Basic and Translational Stroke Research Personnel
WVU Stroke Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (WVU Stroke CoBRE) grant was awarded to the CBTSR on September 8, 2014 for 5 years and $10.7 million.
Sergiy Yakovenko-DARPA-BAA-11-08 received a subcontract from the
University of Pittsburgh entitled “Spinal Root Sensory Feedback for Intramuscular Myoelectric Prostheses. Biomimetic Prosthesis Control.” 02/06/15 to 08/08/16, $231,368.
Sergiy Yakovenko DARPA BAA-14-30 HAPTIX Phase II. “Biomimetic prosthesis control” $367,503. TA1 Project Leader. “Spinal root sensory feedback for intramuscular myoelectric prostheses”. 2016 to 2019.
Sergiy Yakovenko received a Byars-Tarnay Endowment Grant. “Development of a subject-specific motor recruitment model that utilizes motor unit anisotropy and precise muscle architecture for the next-generation biomimetic prosthetics.” 2015-2016.
Sergiy Yakovenko received a IDeA CTR grant from – NIH/NIGMS U54GM104942 “Quantitative measurement of spinal and cortical impairments and interventions to restore neuromuscular gait control” $73,000, 2014-2017.
Center personnel received a multi-investigator award from the WVCTSI, entitled “Intermittent Infection/Inflammation and Cognitive Aging”. The personnel involved are James W. Simpkins, Gregory Konat, Miranda Reed, James O’Callaghan, Diane Miller, Bernard Schreurs, Elisabeth Engler-Chiurazzi, and Ashley Kerr Russell, $100,000
Elizabeth Engler-Chiurazzi received a grant for The Rodent Behavioral Core from the Dean, School of Medicine for enhancement of the functions of the core for $25,000
Sergiy Yakovenko received a grant from the WVCTSI entitled “Quantitative measurement of spinal and cortical impairments and interventions to restore neuromuscular gait control” 09/01/14 to 02/31/16, $73,000.
Justin Legleiter received an NIH Grant entitled “Factors modulating the interaction of huntingtin with lipid membranes: Implications for Huntington's Disease” 10/01/2014-09/31/17. $ $299,868.
Miranda Reed received a R15 grant from the National Institute on Aging entitled “Determining the Roles of Aging and Extrasynaptic NMDARs in Tau Pathology”, 04/01/15 – 03/31/18, $300,000
Sophie Ren received an American Heart Association Scientist Development Award (16SDG31170008) entitled "MiR-34a and Mitochondria in Blood-Brain Barrier and Stroke"
07/01/2016- 6/30/2019，$231,000.
James Simpkins is PD of a NIH pre-doctoral training grants T32 AG052375-01A1 “Predoctoral Training in Stroke and Its co-Morbidities” $1,719,540 which is due for 5-years of funding starting June 1, 2017.
Liz Engler-Chiurazzi received a grant from Nestle-Purina for $219,000 that starts January 1, 2017.
