Josalyn Cho, MD, assistant professor in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, earned a five-year, $2.6 million R01 from the NIH to investigate an immune regulatory protein, T cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain 3 (Tim3), and its impact on influenza infection in the lungs.

Barry London, MD, PhD, professor and director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, received a four-year, $1.8 million R01 grant from the NIH to investigate the effects of radiation on the heart.

Continuing his work with the gene SUMO2 and the protein p66shc, Dr. Santosh Kumar will use his first R01 to further explore the correlation between “SUMOylation” and atherosclerotic development, as well as the mechanism behind SUMO2lyation’s effect on arterial oxidative stress.

Chris Adams, MD, PhD, and Scott Ebert, assistant research scientist, are researching how diabetes and obesity affect muscular atrophy and have removed a specific gene in mice to affect the disease.