List of Recent Awards
| Wendy Picking | Shigella conjugate Immunization study plan (IVT-SHIG-2) | Inventprise LLC | $46,807 | 06/01/2021 |
| Dan Dixon | Colon Cancer Chemoprevention Through Inhibition of Exportin 1 (XPO1) | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | $35,000 | 07/01/2021 |
| Heng Du | Ghrelin resistance in Alzheimer’s disease | University of Kansas | $25,000 | 07/01/2021 |
| Michael Johnson | Light-Initiated Zinc Signaling in Parkinson's Disease | J.R. and Inez Jay Fund | $25,000 | 07/01/2021 |
| Eduardo Rosa-Molinar | Elucidating and disrupting de novo GBM tumor cell-neuron synapses | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | $35,000 | 07/01/2021 |
| William Picking | Applying novel approaches to obtain the molecular structures of difficult T3SS proteins | J.R. and Inez Jay Fund | $25,000 | 07/01/2021 |
| Shyam Sathyamoorthi | Development of New Antibacterial Agents: A Synthesis of the Antibiotic Enacyloxin IIa for the Generation of Therapeutic Analogues | J.R. and Inez Jay Fund | $25,000 | 07/01/2021 |
| Xu, Liang | Integrative Functional Profiling of Tumor-Derived Extracellular Vesicles | University of Florida | $226,332 | 07/01/2021 |
| Wendy Picking | A Vaccine Specifically Targeting T3SS-negative Pseudomonas Aeruginosa | National Institutes of Health | $416,625 | 07/12/2021 |
| Scott Hefty | COBRE Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease | National Institutes of Health | $11,348,856 | 08/01/2021 |
| Robert Unckless | EAGER: Toward a tractable genetic model of DNA virus - Drosophila interaction | National Science Foundation | $253,573 | 08/01/2021 |
| Scott Lovell | Small molecule inhibitors against 3C-like protease of SARS-CoV-2 | Kansas State University | $75,750 | 08/06/2021 |
| Christian Schoeneich | Mechanistic Understanding of Polysorbate 20/80 Oxidation Due to Potential Process Related Impurities in Biologic Drug Product | Eli Lilly Co | $200,000 | 08/13/2021 |
| Sarah Wu | Targeting RNA-binding protein HuR as a novel therapy for lethal prostate cancer | Department of Defense | $853,254 | 08/15/2021 |
| Lan Guo | Mitochondrial DNA stress and STING-dependent microglial activation in Alzheimer's disease | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | $60,000 | 08/27/2021 |
| Scott Lovell | Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Diseases | Seattle Children's Hospital | $366,427 | 09/01/2021 |
| Stuart Macdonald | Linking genomic physiological and behavioral responses to copper stress | University of Kansas | $22,800 | 09/01/2021 |
| Jennifer Robinson | Biomaterial technologies for interrogating sex differences in tissue repair and homeostasis | National Institutes of Health | $1,850,185 | 09/01/2021 |
| Shyam Sathyamoorthi | Tethered aza-Wacker Technology for Complex Antibiotic Assembly | National Institutes of Health | $1,864,708 | 09/01/2021 |