The University Health System will distribute $2.4 million in grant money to five newly proposed research initiatives. These projects were chosen from a pool of 95 applicants by a selection committee representing the various arms of the Health System.
Asst. Radiology Prof. Dr. Jason Druzgal was awarded a grant to examine student athletes at the high school and university level who have head injuries, said Ron Turner, associate dean for clinical research and chair of the grant selection committee. Drugzal will seek to quantify the severity of head impacts and correlate that with changes seen on MRIs.
Other approved projects include using ultrasound research to examine Parkinson’s disease, exploring causes of cancer relapse in young children, and finding a method of detecting blood vessels associated with cardiovascular disease.
“The whole purpose of this program is to select proposals that are very likely to have a direct impact on health care and human health,” Turner said.
Turner said a collection of grants like this will be awarded every six months. Researchers whose projects did not get selected in the first round of grants are allowed to resubmit their proposals in later rounds.
“This is part of a $35 million commitment from the Health System to clinical research that was announced, I think, a year ago, and about $25 million of that is going to be spent on these grants,” Turner said. “This is just the first round of these grants. We are going to do about $5 million a year.
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