2025 Funded Grants
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Systemic effect of combined microbiome-derived mediators on lupus
Joel Babdor, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
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Integrated analysis of chronic pain phenotypes and predictive biomarkers in SLE
Titilola Falasinnu, PhD
Stanford School of Medicine
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Identifying the role of CD96hi CD4+ T-cells in SLE
Vanessa Sue Wacleche, PhD
The Pennsylvania State University
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Role of intestinal host-microbe interactions in lupus pathogenesis
Daniel Zegarra-Ruiz, PhD
University of Virginia
2024 Funded Grants
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Reframing the modulation of B cell signaling inhibitors in SLE
Carlos Castrillon, Ph.D.
Emory University
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The impact of risk-associated genes on a novel injury-associated monocyte subset in lupus nephritis
Paul Hoover, M.D., Ph.D.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
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Investigating the role of SLE serum factors in neonatal lupus cardiac fibrosis
Renita Horton, Ph.D.
University of Houston
2023 Funded Grants
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Optimization of glucocorticoid use in lupus nephritis
Alí Duarte-García, MD
Mayo Clinic
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Dysregulation of alternative splicing in B cells and its role in SLE heterogeneity
Maria Gutierrez-Arcelus, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
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Risk factors and outcomes of cerebrovascular accidents in childhood lupus
Ekemini Ogbu, MD, Msc
Children’s Hospital Medical Center
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Lupus in rural Georgia: investigating research barriers and environmental risk factors
Jessica Williams, MD, MPH
Emory University
2022 Funded Grants
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ELUCIDATE – Epigenetics; Lupus Urine Cells in Decoding APOL1 Transmutation Effect
Ashira Blazer, MD, MSCI
University of Maryland School of Medicine
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Inflammation, Brain Injury and Trajectories of Cognitive Function in Childhood-Onset Lupus
Andrea Knight, MD, MSCE
The Hospital for Sick Children (Canada)
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Biomaterial Models of Health Disparity in Lupus: Characterization of Ancestral Differences in Monocyte-Mediated Vascular Inflammation
Erika Moore, PhD
University of Maryland, College Park