RMM Grants Awarded

See where grants have been awarded across Minnesota.
Brian Fife, PhD
Autoimmune or Type 1 diabetes (T1D) results from the immune‐mediated destruction of insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas islets. In this…
2020-2022
Terry Burns, MD, PhD
Brain irradiation is the standard of treatment for most brain tumors. Irradiating the brain prolongs patient survival, but often results in long…
2020-2022
Rory Smoot, MD
The goal of this proposal is to speed up liver regeneration by activation a regeneration pathway with a drug treatment. This will be tested in…
2020-2022
Ilana Chefetz Menaker, PhD
Young women who undergo chemotherapy for cancer may face infertility. Our experiments are designed to learn how chemotherapy affects the ovaries.…
2020-2022
Martin Rodriguez‐Porcel, MD
Stem cells have the potential to rebuild damaged tissues. Since most tissues are three dimensional, a molecular "scaffold" is often used to place…
2020-2022
Dan Dragomir-Daescu, PhD
The goal of the proposed study is to use a pig model of hemorrhage to investigate the ability of our novel technologies (magnetic intravascular…
2020-2022
David Deyle, MD
The goal of this proposal is to develop a new strategy for skeletal regeneration in patients who have osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) or brittle bone…
2020-2022
Sunny Chan, PhD
Muscular dystrophies are a group of chronic disorders characterized by progressive loss of muscle functions that unfortunately have no cure. Stem…
2020-2022
Patricia Devaux, PhD
We have developed a new technology to reprogram human cells to go back to a state from which they can then develop into other kinds of cells. Our…
2020-2022
Emilyn Alejandro, PhD
Type 2 diabetes is the most common chronic disease, but the search for causes and preventative treatment has largely failed. Our grant seeks to…
2020-2022
Atsushi Asakura, PhD
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene, which normally functions to maintain muscle membrane integrity and…
2020-2022
Atta Behfar, MD, PhD
This research tests a new product for patients who have had a heart attack (AMI, acute myeocardial infarction). This product would help protect and…
2020-2022