Ongoing
2020-2022 RWU Foundation to Promote Scholarship Microbial Eukaryotes: Gut Inhabitants of Galápagos Marine Iguanas
Completed
2019 Med Tech Rhode Island Synthetic Pyrazolines Inhibition of Entamoeba histolytica’s Alcohol/Aldehyde Dehydrogenase 2 (EhADH2)
2017-2019 RWU Foundation to Promote Scholarship Improving Stability of ADHE Enzymes
2017-2018 National Institute of Health General Medicine 2 P20 GM103430 Uncovering Anti-amoebic Bioactive Compounds in medicinal plants, maple syrup and marine microbes
2016-2017 National Institute of Health General Medicine 2 P20 GM103430 Anaerobic Enzymes as Drug Targets in the Treatment of Amoebiasis
2017 Rhode Island NSF-EPSCoR EPS-1004057: Entamoeba spp. as models to explore the effects of environmental stress due to climate change in marine protists
2015-2016 National Institute of Health General Medicine 2 P20 GM103430 Anaerobic Enzymes as Drug Targets in the Treatment of Amoebiasis
2015-2016 Rhode Island NSF-EPSCoR EPS-1004057: Entamoeba spp. as models to explore the effects of environmental stress due to climate change in marine protists
2014-2015 Roger Williams University Foundation Scholarship: Entamoeba spp. use biochemical signaling and behavioral aggregation to discriminate between members of distinctive varieties
2014-2015 National Institute of Health General Medicine 2 P20 GM103430: Anaerobic Enzymes as Drug Targets in the Treatment of Amoebiasis
2014 Rhode Island NSF-EPSCoR 2014: Using signaling in Entamoeba spp. to explore effects of environmental stresses (climate change) in marine and fresh water protists
2013-2014 National Institute of Health NIH-NCRR Grant 8P20GM103430-13; Anti-Amoebic Drugs with Less Toxicity In Humans: Entamoeba histolytica metabolic enzymes as target
2009-2013 National Institute of Health NIH-NCRR Grant # 5P20GM103430 (09-13): The Search for Anti Amoebic Drugs with Less Toxicity In Humans: Entamoeba histolytica EhADH2 Enzyme As Potential Target
2012 National Science Foundation-CAREER 0952550 ROA Supplement to support the research project: Crystal structure(s) of Entamoeba histolytica EhADH2 enzyme and its domains
2008-2011 Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Award given by the Merck Institute for Science Education and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Collaborative biology and chemistry research from molecular to ecosystem scales
2005-2009 National Institute of Health NIH-NCRR Grant # 2 P20 RR16457- 09: The Search for Anti-Amoebic Drugs with Less Toxicity In Humans: Entamoeba histolytica EhADH2 Enzyme As Potential Target
2020-2022 RWU Foundation to Promote Scholarship Microbial Eukaryotes: Gut Inhabitants of Galápagos Marine Iguanas
Completed
2019 Med Tech Rhode Island Synthetic Pyrazolines Inhibition of Entamoeba histolytica’s Alcohol/Aldehyde Dehydrogenase 2 (EhADH2)
2017-2019 RWU Foundation to Promote Scholarship Improving Stability of ADHE Enzymes
2017-2018 National Institute of Health General Medicine 2 P20 GM103430 Uncovering Anti-amoebic Bioactive Compounds in medicinal plants, maple syrup and marine microbes
2016-2017 National Institute of Health General Medicine 2 P20 GM103430 Anaerobic Enzymes as Drug Targets in the Treatment of Amoebiasis
2017 Rhode Island NSF-EPSCoR EPS-1004057: Entamoeba spp. as models to explore the effects of environmental stress due to climate change in marine protists
2015-2016 National Institute of Health General Medicine 2 P20 GM103430 Anaerobic Enzymes as Drug Targets in the Treatment of Amoebiasis
2015-2016 Rhode Island NSF-EPSCoR EPS-1004057: Entamoeba spp. as models to explore the effects of environmental stress due to climate change in marine protists
2014-2015 Roger Williams University Foundation Scholarship: Entamoeba spp. use biochemical signaling and behavioral aggregation to discriminate between members of distinctive varieties
2014-2015 National Institute of Health General Medicine 2 P20 GM103430: Anaerobic Enzymes as Drug Targets in the Treatment of Amoebiasis
2014 Rhode Island NSF-EPSCoR 2014: Using signaling in Entamoeba spp. to explore effects of environmental stresses (climate change) in marine and fresh water protists
2013-2014 National Institute of Health NIH-NCRR Grant 8P20GM103430-13; Anti-Amoebic Drugs with Less Toxicity In Humans: Entamoeba histolytica metabolic enzymes as target
2009-2013 National Institute of Health NIH-NCRR Grant # 5P20GM103430 (09-13): The Search for Anti Amoebic Drugs with Less Toxicity In Humans: Entamoeba histolytica EhADH2 Enzyme As Potential Target
2012 National Science Foundation-CAREER 0952550 ROA Supplement to support the research project: Crystal structure(s) of Entamoeba histolytica EhADH2 enzyme and its domains
2008-2011 Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Award given by the Merck Institute for Science Education and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Collaborative biology and chemistry research from molecular to ecosystem scales
2005-2009 National Institute of Health NIH-NCRR Grant # 2 P20 RR16457- 09: The Search for Anti-Amoebic Drugs with Less Toxicity In Humans: Entamoeba histolytica EhADH2 Enzyme As Potential Target