Funding

Lab funding

Trainee Fellowships & Grants

A). Current

Dean’s Emerging Faculty Leaders Award
Agency:            Iowa State University (ISU)
Project Title:     Profiling Peroxisomal Import Stress Response
Project period: 07/01/2022-06/30/2024

NSF-BIO-MCB (NSF 2046984)
Agency:            National Science Foundation (NSF)
Project Title:     CAREER: Understanding Peroxisomal Stress Responses
Project period: 03/01/2021-02/28/2026

NIH/NIA R01 (R01AG058741-01A1)
Project Title:     Autonomous and Non-Autonomous Regulation of Cardiac Aging
Agency:            National Institute of Health (NIH)
Project period: 01/15/2019-11/30/2023

B). Completed

NIH/NIA R00 Pathway to Independence Award (R00AG048016)
Agency:            National Institute of Health (NIH)
Project Title:     Activin-Mediated Autophagy During Cardiac Aging
Project period: 02/01/2016-01/31/2020

AFAR Research Grants for Junior Faculty
Agency:            American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)
Project Title:     Ligand-specific regulation of TGF-beta mediated muscle aging and longevity
Project period: 07/01/2016-06/30/2018

A). Graduate students

Jacinta Correia
2022 ISU Brown Graduate Fellowship

Ankur Kumar
2021 American Aging Association Travel Award

Ting Miao
ISU Research Excellence Award (REX)
2022 Spring

2020 Kalman/AFAR Scholarships for Research in the Biology of Aging
01/2020-02/2021

Kerui Huang
ISU Research Excellence Award (REX)
2020 Spring

American Heart Association (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship
01/2020-12/2020

Glenn/AFAR Scholarship for Research on the Biology of Aging
05/2017-10/2017

Kai Chang
American Heart Association (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship
01/2019-12/2020

ISU F. Wendell Miller Scholarship
2016-2019

Mark Bouska
2021 ISU Teaching Excellence Award
2016 ISU Presidential Fellowship

Allison Birnbaum
2019 ISU David Gladson Scholarship
2016 ISU Presidential Fellowship

B). Undergraduate students

Wren Murzyn
2023 GDCB Summer Undergraduate Research Internship

Catherine Steele
2023 LAS Dean's High Impact Award for Undergraduate Research

Elizabeth Larkin
2023 LAS Dean's High Impact Award for Undergraduate Research

Elizabeth Quam
2023 First-Year Honors Mentor Program Grant

Marie Bolton
2021 CALS Dean’s Leadership Scholarship

Dongyeol Lee
Dean's High Impact Award for Undergraduate Research, Fall 2020
Sui Tong Chan Fung Internship in Genetics, Summer 2020

Rachel Mehmert
Dean's High Impact Award for Undergraduate Research, Fall 2019

Zhitao Ming
Sui Tong Chan Fung Internship in Genetics, Summer 2018

Sheridan Schwartz
Sui Tong Chan Fung Internship in Genetics, Summer 2016

Audrey Ade
2016 CALS Dean’s Leadership Scholarship