← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
University Of Texas Medical Branch At Galveston
Galveston, TX
$102,637,747
Total funding
121
Grants
Funding over time
peak $14.4M · FY2005–25$20M$15M$10M$5M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
DOD$59,332,968 · 49
NASA$29,722,555 · 24
NSF$11,654,334 · 41
USDA$1,310,920 · 5
DOE$616,971 · 2
By mechanism
—$102,637,747 · 121
Investigators at University Of Texas Medical Branch At Galveston
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
Rising Stars
First grant in the last 5 yrs
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Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
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All-Time
Most funded here, all years
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Largest grants
NASA SPECIALIZED CENTER OF RESEARCH ON RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS: THE GOAL OF THIS NSCOR IS TO PROVI$9,155,391
· FY2009 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NATIONAL BIOCOONTAINMENT TRAINING CENTER$5,864,000
· FY2010 · Department of Defense
¿¿NATIONAL BIOCONTAINMENT TRAINING CENTER¿¿$4,341,540
· FY2011 · Department of Defense
DEVELOPMENT OF A MODIFIED MRNA-BASED VACCINE FOR LASSA VIRUS$3,253,728
· FY2019 · Defense Health Agency
THE TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR SPACE MEDICINE OPERATIONAL AND RESEARCH PROVIDERS ARE UNIQUE. AS PARTNERS IN THIS SPACE MEDICINE FOCUSED RESIDENCY PROG$2,790,413
· FY2016 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
SMART OXYGEN MONITORS TO DIAGNOSE AND TREAT CARDIOPULMONARY INJURIES$2,721,648
· FY2012 · Department of the Army
MISSION CONNECT MILD TBI TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH CONSORTIUM$2,690,597
· FY2008 · Department of the Army
GROWTH HORMONE THERAPY FOR MUSCLE GENERATION IN SEVERELY BURNED PATIENTS$2,426,293
· FY2015 · Department of the Army
STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE GENE EXPRESSION AND VIRULENCE POTENTIAL IN THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT$2,361,347
· FY2008 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
EXPOSURE TO GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS (GCR) PRESENTS A HEALTH RISK TO ASTRONAUTS ON DEEP SPACE MISSIONS. TO STUDY THESE RISKS NASA IS DEVELOPING THE GCR SIMULATOR THAT WILL BE ABLE TO IRRADIATE CELL OR ANIMAL SAMPLES WITH COMBINATIONS OF IONS KNOWN TO BE PRESENT IN GCR. THIS DEVISE WILL BY NECESSITY IRRADIATE THESE SAMPLES AT DOSES AND DOSE RATES CONSIDERABLY HIGH THAN THAT FOUND IN SPACE IN ORDER TO PRODUCE STATISTICALLY MEANINGFUL RESULTS. TO PRODUCE THE BEST SIMULATIONS DOSE RATES AND EXPOSURE SEQUENCES WILL NEED TO BE OPTIMIZED. THIS PROPOSAL WILL ENDEAVOR TO OPTIMIZE THESE PARAMETERS BY MEASURING THE INDUCTION OF CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS. MOST OF THESE ABERRATIONS ARE EXCHANGES OF CHROMOSOMAL SEGMENTS THAT COME ABOUT WHEN RADIATION DAMAGE SEVERS CHROMOSOMES. NORMALLY CELLS CAN REPAIR THESE BREAKS BUT ON OCCASION IF TWO OR MORE BREAKS ARE CLOSE TO ONE ANOTHER A MISTAKE CAN BE MADE WHEREBY THE CELL JOINS BREAK ENDS TO INAPPROPRIATE PARTNERS CAUSING AN EXCHANGE OF CHROMOSOMAL SEGMENTS. THE DAMAGE FORMING THESE BREAKS IS CAUSED BY IONIZATIONS ALONG THE PATHS (TRACKS) THAT IONS TAKE AS THEY PASS THROUGH A MEDIUM. WHILE IN SOME CASES ALL THE BREAKS NECESSARY FOR AN EXCHANGE TO FORM OCCUR ALONG A SINGLE PARTICLE TRACK IN OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES BREAKS ARE FORMED ALONG SEPARATE AND INDEPENDENT TRACKS IN A PROCESS REFERRED TO AS TRACK INTERACTION. TRACK INTERACTION EVENTS BECOME IMPORTANT AT HIGHER DOSES WHEN THE NUMBER OF TRACKS PRODUCE DAMAGE THAT IS SUFFICIENTLY CLOSE TO INTERACT INCREASES. TRACK INTERACTIONS ARE NOT LIKELY TO OCCUR AT THE DOSES THOUGHT TO BE FOUND IN SPACE BUT WILL CERTAINLY HAPPEN AT THE HIGHER DOSES REQUIRED FOR GCR SIMULATIONS AND POTENTIALLY SKEW THE RESULTS. ONE STRATEGY TO AVOID TRACK INTERACTIONS IS TO LOWER THE DOSE RATE. BY SPACING OUT THE TIME OVER WHICH IONS PASS THROUGH A CELL BREAKS FORMING EARLY IN THE TIME FRAME HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE REPAIRED BEFORE OTHER BREAKS FORMING SPATIALLY CLOSE ENOUGH TO INTERACT WITH THEM ARRIVE ON THE SCENE. THIS PRODUCES A REDUCTION IN THE FREQUENCY OF CHROMOSOME EXCHANGES. AS THE DOSE RATE DECREASES FURTHER A POINT IS REACHED WHERE VIRTUALLY ALL THE EXCHANGES RESULT FROM SINGLE TRACK ACTION. AT THIS LIMITING LOW DOSE RATE NO ADDITIONAL REDUCTION IN CHROMOSOME EXCHANGE FREQUENCY IS POSSIBLE BY FURTHER REDUCTION IN THE DOSE RATE. THESE RESULTS WILL BE DIRECTLY SCALABLE TO THE LOW DOSES AND DOSE RATES PRESENT IN SPACE. SPECIFIC AIM 1 OF OUR PROPOSAL WILL ENDEAVOR TO DETERMINE THE LIMITING LOW DOSE RATE FOR PROTONS AT THE ENERGY STATED IN THE NRA. THIS WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED BY IRRADIATING CELLS WITH A SERIES OF DOSES AT DOSE RATES WE ESTIMATE WILL BE CLOSE TO THE LIMITING LOW DOSE RATE AND LOOKING FOR CHROMOSOME EXCHANGES. WHEN ADDITIONAL REDUCTION IN DOSES RATE FAILS TO PRODUCE ANY FURTHER DECREASE IN EXCHANGES AS A FUNCTION OF DOSE WE WILL BE AT THE LIMITING LOW DOSE RATE. THE GCR SIMULATOR WILL BE IRRADIATING SAMPLES WITH A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT ION BEAMS IN ORDER TO BETTER SIMULATE THE NATURE OF THE MIXED ION FIELD FOUND IN SPACE. THE HEAVIER IONS IN THE GCR SPECTRUM WILL BEHAVE DIFFERENTLY FROM THE LIGHTER IONS. THE HEAVY IONS PRODUCE MORE DAMAGE ALONG THEIR TRACKS; SO MUCH SO THAT VIRTUALLY ALL CHROMOSOME EXCHANGES ARE FORMED VIA SINGLE TRACK ACTION. IN THIS CASE WE WILL NEED TO DETERMINE THE OPTIMAL TIME NEEDED FOR REPAIR TO OCCUR BETWEEN IRRADIATIONS WITH THE SUBSEQUENT IONS BEAMS TO AVOID TRACK INTERACTION. SPECIFIC AIM 2 WILL ADDRESS THESE CONCERNS BY VARYING THE TIME BETWEEN ION BEAMS. MUCH LIKE THE DOSE RATE EXPERIMENTS AS WE EXTEND THE TIME BETWEEN IRRADIATIONS THE PROBABILITY FOR TRACK INTERACTION SHOULD BE REDUCED. ONCE WE REACH A LEVEL WHERE NO FURTHER CHROMOSOME EXCHANGE FREQUENCY REDUCTIONS ARE OBSERVED WE WILL HAVE REACHED THE OPTIMAL POINT FOR IRRADIATION DELAY. SEQUENCE MAY ALSO BE IMPORTANT IN THAT REGARD AND ADDITIONAL EXPERIMENT WILL SEARCH FOR THE BEST SEQUENCE THAT MINIMIZES TRACK INTERACTION.$2,261,083
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NON-INVASIVE MONITORING OF CEREBRAL VENOUS SATURATION IN PATIENTS WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY$2,160,487
· FY2010 · Department of Defense
EFFECTS OF BURN INJURIES ON THERMOREGULATORY AND CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSES IN SOLDIERS; IMPLICATIONS FOR THE STANDARDS OF MEDICAL FITNESS$2,017,168
· FY2015 · Department of the Army
DEVELOPMENT OF A RECOMBINANT VSV-BASED VACCINE FOR NIPAH VIRUS$1,864,897
· FY2019 · Department of the Army
DEVELOPMENT OF A RECOMBINANT VSV-BASED VACCINE FOR LASSA FEVER$1,858,169
· FY2019 · Defense Health Agency
MECHANISMS UNDERLYING THE THERAPEUTIC EFFICACY OF EXCLUSIVE ENTERAL NUTRITION IN CROHN'S DISEASE$1,825,971
· FY2020 · Defense Health Agency
EXPOSURE TO HIGH-ENERGY HEAVY IONS (HZE) DURING SPACE TRAVEL IS A HEALTH RISK FOR ASTRONAUTS. EVEN AT LOW DOSES, EXPOSURE TO HZE CAN LEAD TO CANCER.$1,783,230
· FY2015 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THIS PROPOSAL ENCOMPASSES A WIDE RANGE OF EDUCATIONAL TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT NASA'S MISSION AND TO MEET THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF NASA PHYS$1,632,552
· FY2010 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY OF YERSINIA SPECIES IN THE TRANSBOUNDARY PLAGUE ENDEMIC TERRITORY IN GEORGIA AND AZERBAIJAN$1,539,160
· FY2017 · Defense Threat Reduction Agency
INSIGHTS INTO HUMAN IMMUNITY TO PLAGUE$1,500,000
· FY2011 · Department of Defense
HIGHLY ENERGETIC HEAVY IONS (HZE), OF THE TYPE FOUND IN GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS, DEPOSIT ENERGY IN CLOSELY SPACED AREAS ALONG THE PATHS (TRACKS) THESE I$1,492,411
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration