Researchers

Active Multi-Year Pilot Awardees

Active MY Pilot Awards
First	Last	UA Campus/ Partner Inst.	Title of Project
Alireza	Badiei	UAF	Clinical Relevance of Hydrogen Sulfide and Substance P with Vitamin V in Sepsis
Parisa	Lofti	UAA	Enhancement of Lysosomal Function and Autophagy Affects Aging and Neurogenesis in Adult Brain
Elena	Roik	ANTHC	Epidemiology of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in an Alaska Native/American Indian Pediatric Population
Mario	Muscarella	UAF	Microbial Mercury Cycling in a Changing Alaska: Influence of Permafrost Thaw & Wildfire
Jennifer	Shaw	SCF	Shifting from Response to Prevention: the Role of Vitamin D in Postpartum Hemorrhage Among Alaska Native Women
Megan	Weltzin	UAF	Developing Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subtype Selective Peptides Derived from the Rabies Virus
Benjamin	Barst	UAF	Characterizing the Bioaccessibility of Methylmercury and Selenium from Alaskan Fish and Marine Mammals

Administrative Supplement Awards

Administrative Supplement Awards
First	Last	UA Campus/ Partner Inst.	Title of Project
Jaedon	Avey	SCF	Engaging Stakeholders to Implement Predictive Algorithms for Suicide in an Alaska Native Health System
Jennifer	Shaw	SCF
Matthew	Wooller	UAF	Application of Dietary Biomarker Analyses of Dried Blood Spots from University Students to Assess Diet in the Context of Wellbeing
Sara	Buckingham	UAA
Holly	Martinson	UAA	Enhancing Mucin-1 Cancer Vaccine with Myeloid Targeted Antigen Delivery
Eric	Bortz	UAA	Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Alaska
Devin	Drown	UAF
Jiguo (Jack)	Chen	UAF
Eric	Bortz	UAA	SARS-CoV-2 in Alaska Year 2
Devin	Drown	UAF
Jiguo (Jack)	Chen	UAF
Patrick	Tomco	UAA	ICP-MS: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer
Katie	Cueva	UAA	Engaging College Students in Culturally Relevant Cancer Prevention and Control
Jennifer	Schmidt	UAA
Lauren	Lessard	UAA	My Best Alaskan Life: Community Based Research with Adolescents to Address Sexual and Reproductive Health
Devin	Drown	UAF	COVID-19 Transmission in Alaska: Geographic and Genomic Modeling
John	Rhodes	UAF

Investigator	Campus	Project Title
Lauren Lessard	UAA	Youth-Centered Reproductive Life Plan: Community-based Research with Adolescents to Address Mental and Reproductive Health in Alaska
Benjamin Barst	UAF	Characterizing the bioaccessibility of methylmercury from Alaskan marine and freshwater fish species
Cornelia Jessen	ANTHC	Integrating Culturally-based Strengths to Address Gynecological Disparities Among Alaska Native/American Indian Women
Amanda Kelley	UAF	Preparing to investigate the physiological impacts of climate stressors on Pink Salmon

Investigator	Campus	Project Title
Kristin Gorman	UAF	Effects of energetic state and infectious agents on migration by Sockeye Salmon
Micah Hahn	UAA	Understanding the risk of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in Alaska
Kristin O'Brien	UAF	Effects of polyglutamine and glutamic acid repeats on HIF-1 function
Ryan Oliver	UAF	Skeletal muscle thermogenesis by sarcolipinuncoupling in ground squirrels
Patrick Tomco	UAA	Cold-region environmental behavior of rotenone and applications to exposure prevention
Maegan Weltzin	UAF	Pharmacology and function of nicotinic receptors altered by an epilepsy mutation
Cory Williams	UAF	Effects of Photoperiod and Dopamine Disruption on Sleep and Mass Gain
Matthew Wooller	UAF	Dried blood spots as a tool for diet and trace element exposure assessment

Investigator	Campus/Partner Institution	Project Title
Rei Shimizu	UAA	CBPR with Young Adults in Mountain View: Building Nourished Healthy Communities
Ashley O'Connor	UAA	Evaluating the Impact of a Humane Education Program with a Therapy Dog on Military Children’s Social-Emotional Well-Being and Attitudes Towards Animals

Investigator	Campus	Project Title
Holly Martinson	UAA	Enhancing Mucin-1 cancer vaccine with complement targeted nanoparticles
Rachael Hannah	UAA	K+ channel modulation of cerebrovascular reactivity in the anoxia-tolerant turtle Trachemys scripta