OCRID Investigators Received Two NIH R01 Grants, Totaling Over $4 million
Dr. Heather Fahlenkamp, Phase I project leader along with Dr. Susan Kovats, OCRID investigator just received a multiple PI NIH R01 grant entitled “A 3D Human Tissue-Engineered Lung Model to Study Immune Responses to Respiratory Syncytial Virus”. This is a 4-year funding with over 2 million and the third R01 that OCRID project leaders received. Dr. Fahlenkamp was Assistant Professor when OCRID started in 2013 and is now Full Professor in Chemical Engineering and Anadarko Petroleum Chair at the College of Engineering and Technology, OSU. She was recently appointed as Interim Head of School of Chemical Engineering. Dr. Kovats is Associate Member at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. Dr. Bob Welliver (OCRID mentor) in the Department of Pediatrics and Dr. Jordan Metcalf (OCRID Co-Director) in the Department of Medicine, OUHSC serve as co-investigators. This project was initiated and further developed from one of the projects in a U19 multiple project grant submitted by OCRID in 2016. This is another successful example demonstrating the effectiveness in promoting collaborations on Respiratory and Infectious Diseases across the State of Oklahoma by OCRID.