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Congrats to our colleagues on their awards this year!

Elysia Davis with co-Investigator Jena Doom, NIH

“Reducing Maternal Prenatal Depression to Improve Child Cardiovascular Health”  

1/15/21-12/31/25, $3,405,384

Galena Rhoades, University of Miami

“Evaluation of Nationwide Online Relationship Education for Underserved Couples”

1/1/21-3/31/21, $388,016

Jena Doom, Mental Research Institute

“Testing a Brief Social Belonging Intervention to Improve Social Relationships and Well-being during the COVID-19 Pandemic”

3/1/21-2/28/22, $23,500

Catherine Demers, NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship

“Prenatal Maternal Depression Exposure and infant Neurocircuitry Development”

8/1/2021-7/31/22

Jena Doom, Mental Research Institute

“When Parents Become Ineffective Social Buffers, Do Siblings Step In?”

8/1/21-7/31/22, $25,000

Kamilah Legette, Foundation for Child Development

“Teachers’ Racialized Behavioral Appraisals: Exploring Emotion Regulation as a Mechanism to Reduce Racial Disparities in Discipline”

8/1/21-6/30/22, $15,000

Pilyoung Kim, National Science Foundation

EAGER: Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: Teach High School Students about Cybersecurity and AI Ethics via Empathy-Driven Hands-On Projects

7/1/21-6/30/23, $97,822

Erika Manczak and Elysia Davis, NIH

“Inflammatory trajectories across pregnancy: Investigating novel markers of risk for postpartum depression”

5/20/21-4/30/23, $241,434

Eliza Kramer, National Science Foundation

Graduate Research Fellowship

6/1/21-5/31/26, $138,000

Samantha Scott, National Science Foundation

Graduate Research Fellowship

6/1/21-5/31/26, $138,000

Galena Rhoades, Mathematica Policy Research

“Strengthening the Implementation of Marriage and Relationship Programs Involvement”

4/1/21-9/30/22, $147,990

Jessica Purcel, Washington Park Research & Evaluation

“Evaluation of Family Expectations”

3/1/2021-12/31/2025, $106,751

Kathryn Fox received an award from the Upswing Fund

“Leveraging Social Media to Enhance Access to Brief, Evidence-Based, and Low-Cost Mental Health Treatment for LGBTQ+ Adolescents”

12/15/2020-11/30/2021  $380,490.

Tiffany Phu, NIH

Research Fellowship Award

1/1/2022-12/31/22, $335,336

Michelle Rozenman, San Diego State University Research Foundation

“Video-visit behavior therapy for anxiety and depression in youth: A randomized effectiveness-implementation study in low-resource primary care settings”

9/18/20-7/31/22, $10,302

Kathryn Fox, Mental Research Institute

“Helping Parents Navigate Child Suicide Risk”

1/15/22-3/31/23, $25,000

Nicholas Perry, American Psychological Foundation,
“Relationship processes and daily health behaviors among sexual minority female couples with overweight and obesity”
10/5/21-9/30/22, $9,000

Nicholas Perry, Washington Park Research & Evaluation
“Evaluation of Responding to Relationships”
9/1/21-12/31/25, $615,369

Nicholas Perry, Washington Park Research & Evaluation
“Evaluation of Becoming ONE”
9/1/21-12/31/25, $148,188

Elysia Davis, Michigan State University
Genetic Influences on Infant Brain Development: Understanding the Developmental Origins of Mental Illness
5/17/21-3/31/22, $124,876

Pilyoung Kim, Michigan State University
Genetic Influences on Infant Brain Development: Understanding the Developmental Origins of Mental Illness
5/17/21-3/31/22, $135.442

Kimberly Chiew, Brain & Behavioral Research Foundation
“Investigating temporal dynamics of motivation-cognitive control interactions in children with ADHD using high-resolution pupillometry”
7/15/2021-7/14/2023, $67,998

Nathalie Dieujuste, National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship Program
9/1/21-8/31/26, $138,000

Melissa Brewster with Elysia Davis, NIH
Supplemental funds: Reducing maternal prenatal depression to improve child cardiovascular health
9/1/21-12/31/21, $646,268

Nathalie Dieujuste, National Science Foundation
Graduate Research Fellowship Program
9/1/21-8/31/26, $138,000

There are four DU/NJH collaborative Pilot Projects –

1. Drs. Genery Booster (NJH) and Michelle Rozenman (DU), “Addressing Pediatric Anxiety in Medical Care Settings: Development and Pilot Testing of a Web-Based Anxiety Toolkit"
2. Drs. Lisa Meltzer (NJH) and Jenalee Doom (DU) “Alterations in sleep health, early childhood stress and risk of cardiovascular disease”
3. Drs. Brian O’Connor (NJH) and Erika Manczak (DU) “Characterizing the Immunologic Landscape of Adolescent Depressive Symptoms Using Combined Single Cell Proteomics and Transcriptomics”
4. Drs. Eileen Wang (NJH) and Anne DePrince (DU) “Intimate Partner Violence and Asthma”

And two internal PROF Awards received in July 2021:

Erika Manczak, $19,996

Kateri McRae $19,337