Biomedical Research Seed Grants

This program provides funding to support preliminary research or data collection needed to develop stronger UNL proposals for biomedical research funding from the National Institutes of Health. Recent recipients and their projects are:

• Paul Blum, biological sciences, Biomolecular Characterization of Therapeutic Exotoxins from Mammalian Hosts
• Jennifer Wood, veterinary medicine and biomedical sciences, Developmental Programming of Sarcopenic Obesity
• Colin Meiklejohn, biological sciences, Genetic, Molecular and Evolutionary Studies of X-chromosome Regulation in the Drosophila male germline
• Sangjin Ryu, mechanical and materials engineering, A Microfluidics Device for Quantitative Imaging of Chondrocyte Response to Mechanical and Biochemical Stimuli
• Anuradha Subramanian, chemical and biomolecular engineering, Strategies for Cartilage Repair