This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (CFDA 93.847 - Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research) supports a 5-year research program focused on defining novel neuro-immune pathways that regulate gut physiology. The $168,296 award to Weill Medical College of Cornell University aims to investigate the role of enzymes in group 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s) and their impact on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), supports research by Dr. Geoanna Bautista at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to investigate the role of the mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo1 in regulating intestinal smooth muscle cell calcium dynamics during gut development. The 5-year, $164,700 award will fund studies to...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), provides $747,500.00 to support research on memory formation in the enteric nervous system (ENS). The project aims to build the tools required for studying the formation and meaning of ENS memories, and then use these tools in combination with various perturbations to transform the...
This Project Grant award of $117,000.00 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847) supports research to investigate the role of substance P-mediated activation of mast cells in driving visceral hypersensitivity and barrier dysfunction in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The objective is to delineate the underlying mechanisms of bidirectional crosstalk between sensory...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847) provides $594,956 to the University of South Florida to conduct research on the mechanisms underlying stretch-evoked activation of esophageal vagal afferents. The goal is to determine the mechanosensitive channels and sodium channels responsible for transducing esophageal stretch into vagal afferent...
This federal Project Grant award of $726,140.00 was provided by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847). The grant aims to elucidate the neural circuits and cellular mechanisms underlying visceral pain processing in the spinal cord and brainstem, with the goal of advancing understanding and treatment of visceral pain conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome,...
This federal Project Grant award of $151,643, provided by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), supports research on developing and evaluating Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs) to stabilize hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) as a potential therapeutic approach for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The principal investigator, Dr. Ornelas Sanchez, and his...
This $625,060 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847) will fund research to elucidate the roles of distinct spinal cord cell types in mediating interstitial cystitis (IC)/bladder pain syndrome (BPS). The research, conducted by The Washington University in St. Louis, will use chemogenetics and optogenetics approaches to determine the...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847) provides $850,232 to Northwestern University to advance the evolution of the Chicago Classification for diagnosing esophageal motor disorders. The project aims to develop new approaches combining assessments of esophageal neuromyogenic function and geometry to identify biomechanical physiomarkers of...
This $475,605 Project Grant award was provided by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847). The grant aims to definitively evaluate gastric dysrhythmia as a disease mechanism underlying functional dyspepsia and chronic nausea/vomiting syndromes, which affect over 10% of the population. The project will apply a novel non-invasive diagnostic approach called Body...