AU research team awarded $4.4 million American Heart Association grant
“This grant is particularly impactful as we look to advance and improve the health of women, not just in Georgia, but for the entire country," says Jennifer C. Sullivan, PhD.
FOCUS
At Augusta University, we harness the power of collaboration every day, and we’re stronger for it. Our interdisciplinary and translational approach to research and scholarship ensures that we are always ready to harness the wisdom and power that comes from our colleagues from all corners of our ever-expanding campus.
As home to the state’s only public medical college and the only dental school, we are infusing the next generation of health care providers with the knowledge to provide the best, most innovative health care to all Georgians, making good on our promise to make Georgia our campus. But it doesn’t stop there. Certainly, our research efforts keep us healthier, but they also keep us safer, better educated, better prepared and better connected to the world we live in.
One of four comprehensive research universities in Georgia, our scientists are dedicated to finding innovative solutions to illness and disease disproportionately affecting our state, including cancer, stroke and heart disease.
Our research makes us stronger, and our collective future is brighter because of it.
DISCOVER
Augusta University is on the forefront of biomedical science with signature basic, clinical, and translational research programs and is also the site for state-of-the-art research and education across computer science, information technology and cybersecurity disciplines.
RESEARCH FOCUSED
Clinical and translational research programs at Augusta University focus on three key areas that disproportionately affect the health of Georgians: cancer, cardiometabolic disease, and neurological disease including stroke. We are also developing three emerging areas of research strength: regenerative & reparative medicine, personalized medicine & genomics, and public and preventive health.
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“This grant is particularly impactful as we look to advance and improve the health of women, not just in Georgia, but for the entire country," says Jennifer C. Sullivan, PhD.
Trent Kays, PhD, was selected as a Governor's Teaching Fellow and plans to explore how AI can enhance learning and collaboration in the classroom.
“It is a great opportunity to connect our groundbreaking discoveries from basic science into real-world clinical practice," says Babak Baban, PhD.
“I had a personal interest because my mother-in-law had a spinal cord injury, and she had really bad neuropathic pain,” says Laura Carbone, MD.