US Federal Projects at the ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ

ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ researchers are supported by US grants

Over the last 17 years, researchers at the ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ have received funding for their projects from several US federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Agriculture.

US-financed projects

Main awards

– International Epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS Southern Africa
Co-PIs from Dec 2024: Eliane Rohner and Gilles Wandeler (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine)
PI until Nov 2024: Matthias Egger (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine)

– HIV-1 subtype, specific drug resistance in patients failing Dolutegravir-based 1st, 2nd or 3rd line regimens: the International epidemiological Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA)
PI: Matthias Egger (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine)

Subawards


PI: Maxime Baud (Department of Neurology)

– Noninvasive Subharmonic Aided Pressure Estimation of Portal Hypertension
PI: Annalisa Berzigotti (Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine)

– A Scalable Toolkit for Standardizing and Coordinating Data Sharing Across International Research Networks
PI: Matthias Egger (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine)


PI: Britta Engelhardt (Theodor Kocher Institute)


PI: Andrew Hemphill (Institute of Parasitology)


PI: Andrew Hemphill (Institute of Parasitology)


PI: Mona Mohsen (Department for BioMedical Research)


PI: Roland Wiest (Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology)

Current projects

Intestinal Secreted microRNAs as Regulators of the Gut Microflora Driving Inflammatory Bowel Disease
PI: Robert Gaultney (Institute of Tissue Medicine and Pathology)

Site-specific, intra-articular, 'on demand' immunosuppression for long-term functional graft survival in joint allotransplantation in a large animal model
PI: Radu Olariu (Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery)

Targeting PARP Inhibitor Resistance
PI: Sven Rottenberg (Institute of Animal Pathology)

Defining the role of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex in advanced metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) therapy resistance
PI: Mark Rubin (Department for BioMedical Research)

Completed projects

The Role of CRIPTO Signaling in Lethal Prostate Cancer
PI: Marianna Kruithof-de Julio (Department of Urology)

In Vivo and Ex Vivo Models to Study Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury, Endothelial Cell Protection, and Limb Preservation in a Prolonged Field Care Scenario
PI: Robert Rieben (Department for BioMedical Research)

Targeting the Lymphatic System for Modulating Immune Rejection and Promoting Tolerance in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation
PI: Adriano Taddeo (Department for BioMedical Research)