Funding
Current grants:
- Role: Principal Investigator
Title: Alcoholic hepatitis: Molecular mechanisms
Funding Agency: NIH (NIAAA) AA016316-01A1 - Role: Principal Investigator
Title: Evaluation of Osteopontin as a Potential In Vitro Biomarker for chemically- mediated hepatic inflammation
Funding Agency: Colgate Palmolive Grants for Alternate Research
- Role: Mentor to Graduate Student, Atrayee Banerjee
Title: Role of Osteopontin in the higher female susceptibility to alcoholic liver disease
Funding Agency: Novartis Corporation
Previous Grants:
- Role: Principal Investigator
Title: Alcoholic hepatitis
Funding Agency: Seed Funding for NIH Grants from Vice President of Research, TAMU
- Role: Principal Investigator
Title: Alcoholic hepatitis
Funding Agency: P30 ES09106 Safe/Mirkes (PI); Pilot project funded by NIEHS CERH
- Role: Mentor to Graduate student Atrayee Banerjee
Title: Regulation of osteopontin gene by ethanol: Potential mechanism behind osteopontin mediated hepatic neutrophilic infiltration in alcoholic steatohepatitis
Funding Agency: Research Society on Alcoholism, Texas Division
- Role: Co-investigator (PI: Dr. Robert Rose in Dr. Ramaiah’s lab
Title: Role of calpain in LPS-mediated hepatitis
Funding Agency: Ross Grant Program, Coll. Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University
- Role: Mentor to Graduate Student Udayan Apte
Title: Identification and characterization of ethanol responsive element in the rat osteopontin
Funding Agency: Research Society on Alcoholism, Texas Division promoter
