AAMC highlights NEOMED researchers awarded NIH grants

AAMC highlights NEOMED researchers awarded NIH grants

Researchers from Northeast Ohio Medical University are featured in a recent edition of AAMC News: Robust NIH funding saves lives, strengthens America | AAMC.

Ronald Seese, M.D., Ph.D., a developmental neurologist at Akron Children's Hospital and an associate professor of pediatrics at NEOMED, Erin Reed, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences, and Trinity Kronk, an M.D./Ph.D. student, each highlighted how NIH funding has helped advance their work in the report.

Dr. Seese has received nearly $2 million in NIH grants to start his lab at NEOMED where he studies the role of dysautonomia, a condition caused by dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, in young people with autism. He hopes his work leads to novel treatments for the condition, which can be disabling.

The $1.9 million, five-year grant Dr. Reed received from NIH has enabled her to explore how Alzheimer's disease affects the sexes differently. Her research will help make pharmaceutical interventions more effective.

Kronk has been studying the protein osteoactivin with help from a $181,588 NIH grant. She is exploring the anti-inflammatory effects of the protein and the therapeutical potential for managing osteoarthritis.

The examples from NEOMED help illustrate the critical role played by NIH in stimulating advances in medical research. As the article notes, in fiscal year (FY) 2025 alone, the NIH supported the projects of more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 institutions across the United States.

Read and download the report: Robust NIH funding saves lives, strengthens America | AAMC