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Atlanta, GA | Posted: December 17, 2019
Walter Rich
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BME researchers Gari Clifford and Chethan Pandarinath are on interdisciplinary research teams receiving Emory I3 Nexus funding in 2020
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Gari Clifford (pictured left), professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech, and chair of the Biomedical Informatics Department in the Emory University School of Medicine, and Chethan PandarEmory University School of Medicine’s Imagine, Innovate and Impact (I3) Nexus Awards are grants awarded to spur interdisciplinary research projects that have the potential to impact health or generate biomedical knowledge.
This award provides seed money to fundamental biological and translational investigators for obtaining data to develop external collaborative funding applications, and to investigators who may not otherwise engage in multi- and interdisciplinary research.
Gari Clifford, professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech, and chair of the Biomedical Informatics Department in the Emory University School of Medicine, is a member of a three person I3 funded team pursuing the feasibility of mHealth blood pressure monitoring in postpartum women.
Chethan Pandarinath, assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech, is a member of a two person I3 funded team researching striatal pathophysiology underlying dystonia. This same team, Pandarinath and Ellen Ness, professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology at the Emory School of Medicine, are also recipients of a Emory-Udall Parkinson's Disease Center Pilot Grant.
Ness is the principal investigator and Pandarinath is the co-principal investigator on both projects.
A complete list of the five awarded I3 Nexus projects in 2020 is listed below.
Feasibility of mHealth Blood Pressure Monitoring in Postpartum Women
Striatal Pathophysiology Underlying Dystonia
Broad-spectrum Antivirals to Combat Influenza, Dengue and Zika Viruses
Deep Learning Approach Towards Identifying Disease-relevant Variants in Alzheimer’s Disease
Impact of HIV on Lung Immune Responses to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection
