Sources of Funding
Sjögren’s Foundation Pilot Research Award (Role: PI: Abigail Koppes)
Parsing dysautonomia in a dish: neural exposure to exogenous Sjögren’s patient derived serum
NIH NINDS R21 (Role: PI: Guohao Dai; Co-I: Ryan Koppes)
Bioengineer a humanized Autonomic Neurovascular Innervation on a Chip
NASA AMES NASA CASIS (Role: PI: Guohao Dai; Co-I: Abigail Koppes, Ryan Koppes, Jenny Zou, Roland Friedel)
Bioengineer long-lasting 3D neurovascular microphysiological system to model chronic inflammation mediated neurodegeneration
NIH NIA R21 (Role: PIs: Subhash Kulkarni/Abigail Koppes)
Developing a microphysiological system of a humanized Gut-Brain-Axis for age-associated transmissible neuropathologies
NIH NIBIB Trailblazer R21 (Role: PI: Benjamin Woolston)
Engineered Probiotics for Closed-Loop Control of Disease-Associated Gut Metabolites in Gut-On-Chip Models
$500K NSF CAREER CBET Award: 2045906 (Role: PI: Abigail Koppes)
Defining the regulators of enteric plasticity in engineered microfluidic environments
NIH Trailblazer: 1R21EB025395 (Role: PIs: Abigail Koppes/Ryan Koppes)
ENGINEERING A HUMANIZED GUT-ENTERIC-AXIS
R01 BRP: 5R01EB021908 (Role: CO-I, PIs: Rebecca Carrier/Linda Griffith)
GUMI: NEW IN VITRO PLATFORMS TO PARSE THE HUMAN GUT EPITHELIAL-MICROBIOME-IMMUNE AXIS 19IPLOI34760604
AHA Innovative Project Award: 19IPLOI34760604 (Role: CO-I, mPIs: Ryan Koppes/Guohao Dai)
BIOENGINEER AN AUTONOMIC NEUROVASCULAR SYSTEM TO EXPLORE INNERVATION OF ARTERIAL GRAFTS
Abby publishes commentary calling to address racial disparities in research funding
Abby was a signatory on a recent commentary published in Cell calling for increased action to address present racial disparities in scientific funding. More details can be found in a news release and the commentary itself. #fundblackscientists
Jessica received a conference abstract award
Jessica received the Tissue Engineering SIG Student Abstract Award for her submission to the 2020 World Biomaterials Congress. Congrats Jessica!