Local Media Publicize Federally Funded Research Projects
Newsday, in its weekly Winners column, reported on three federally funded research projects by NYITCOM faculty. The awards, which total approximately $1.4 million, include the medical school鈥檚 first grant from the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and two competitive grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). On , the column featured NIH-funded research by Associate Professor , which investigates obesity-related hypertension; on , the column highlighted DoD-funded research by Associate Professor , which investigates a rare form of brain cancer found mainly in children; on , the column publicized NIH-funded research by Professor Qiangrong Liang, M.D., Ph.D., which aims to prevent long-term heart damage in cancer survivors previously treated with a potent chemotherapy drug.
Coverage of these prestigious grants also appeared in .