Dr. Diane Chugani, professor of Pediatrics and Radiology in the School of Medicine at WSU, was recently awarded a $5.79 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health for a study that may open doors to finding a treatment for improving those afflicted with autism.

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Researchers at WSU have discovered that lack of eyeblink response in eyeblink conditioning tests may help to identify children who have been prenatally exposed to alcohol - fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) - according to results published in the February 2008 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.

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The HIV/AIDS pandemic scene in East Asia is largely dominated by China. While AIDS is not yet considered an epidemic in China, the infection rate has risen sharply in recent years, and the potential impact of a serious outbreak would be disastrous for both China and the world’s economy.

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Jason H. Mateika, Ph.D., of the Department of Physiology and Internal Medicine in the School of Medicine, was recently awarded $1.5 million from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. His grant, “Impact of Intermittent Hypoxia on Ventilatory Drive and Apnea Severity,” will investigate sleep apnea, a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep.

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A team of researchers from WSU’s College of Engineering, School of Medicine and the Kresge Eye Institute - Ligon Center, have been collaborating to discover and develop new nanodevices that will aid in the diagnosis and treatment of a number of neuroinflammatory diseases and infections that are currently difficult to target and treat.

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Following a rigorous, two and a half years evaluatian process, WSU’s research program involving human participants has received full accreditation by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs Inc. (AAHRPP).

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Dr. Paul Karchin, professor of Physics and astronomy, and Dr. Mark Mattson and Nages Kulkarni, also of Physics, confirm evidence of a new matter-anti-matter oscillation behavior in a particle made from protons at Fermilab.

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The National Institute on Aging has awarded a $3.3 million grant to fund joint research and edcuation projects at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research and WSU’s Institute of Gerontology.

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Dr. Roberto Romero has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, a major resource for independent, scientifically informed analysis and recommendations on issues related to human health.

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Wayne State University will receive over $6 million from the recently awarded National Children’s Study. Dr. Robert Sokol will lead Wayne State’s efforts in the most ambitious children’s health study of its kind in the nation.

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