DoD, SBIR
“Dexamethasone nanotherapeutics for traumatic brain injury”
Phase I grant
Awarded February 2025
$250,000
iRED (IDeA Regional Entrepreneurship Development Program 2nd cohort)
"XLerator Network Selects 8 Life Science Startups Across Southeast" for NIH-Funded Entrepreneurship Program
Awarded August 2024
$25,000
SCRA (South Carolina Research Authority)
Academic Startup Grant
Agency: South Carolina Research Authority
Awarded June 2023
$25,000
SCIRF-IIR
“Evaluation of toxicity and therapeutic treatment window of rolipram-loaded PgP for SCI”
Agency: South Carolina - Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund
Role: Principal Investigator
Period: 7/15/2023-7/14/2025
NIH R01
“Regulation of SCI-induced pain by macrophages and exercise”
Agency: NIH/NINDS
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Megan Detloff, Drexel University)
Period: 11/15/2023-11/14/2028
Pilot Grant
“Macrophage-targeted nanotherapeutic to reduce SCI Pain”
Agency: Craig H Neilson Foundation
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Megan Detloff, Drexel University)
Period: 8/15/2023-8/14/2025
NIH R01 NS111037-01
"Neuron-specific Nanotherapeutics for Spinal Cord Injury Repair"
Agency: NIH/NINDS
Role: Principal Investigator
Period: 2/1/2019-1/31/2025
$ 1,311,562
NIH 1R21 1R21NS114723-01A1
“Preclinical Evaluation of Combination Therapy of Rolipram and Minocycline for Arresting Secondary Injury Cascade After Traumatic Brain Injury”
Agency: NIH/NINDS
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. Murray, Louisiana Tech University)
Period: 9/1/2020-8/31/2024
NIH 1R21 1R21NS118224-01
“Microglial RGS10 as a therapeutic target for Lewy body diseases”
Agency: NIH/NINDS
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. Jae-Kyung Lee, UGA)
Period: 9/1/2020-8/31/2024
$148,625 sub-award
BX000347-11
“Cerebral arteriole structure/function in diabetic ischemic brain injury”
Agency: Veterans Administration
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Dr. Adviye Ergul, MUSC)
Period: 1/15/2022-1/14/2026
Pilot project
“Establishment of feline SCI model and new MR imaging capabilities for assessment of therapeutic efficacy”
Agency: SC-BioCRAFT / NIH
Role: Principal Investigator
Period: 8/15/2022-6/30/2024