Grants & You: Winter 2022-23: Grants Funded & Grants Submitted

**Yvette Thornton, RDH, MPH, and Heather Johnson, RDH, MEd, ASDOH Pre-Doc Education, “Smiles Across Pinal County Sealant Program” Year 8, Delta Dental of Arizona Foundation, $50,000, October 2022 – September 2023.

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*Priscilla Phillips, PhD, KCOM Microbiology, “The role of Porphyromonas gingivalis type 9 secretion system in impaired spiral artery remodeling,” (University of Wisconsin–Madison Prime, Sub to KCOM), National Institutes of Health–National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01), $630,354, July 2023 – June 2028.

*Priscilla Phillips, PhD, KCOM Microbiology, “P. gingivalis type 9 secretion system in perturbed TGF-beta signaling,” (University of Wisconsin–Madison Prime, Sub to KCOM), National Institutes of Health–National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01), $420,817, July 2023 – June 2028.

*Bruce Young, PhD, KCOM Anatomy, “The influence of CSF pressure and flow on brain and spinal parenchymal clearance,” University of Missouri–Spinal Cord Injury and Disease Research Program, $95,175, March 1, 2023 – February 29, 2024.

*Elton Bordenave, PhD, MEd, ATSU Center for Resilience in Aging, “CarePLaCe: Plan to care, Learn to care, and Connect to care - Phoenix,” (City of Phoenix Prime, Sub to ASHS), American Rescue Plan Act - Coronavirus Relief Fund, $400,000, January 2023 – December 2023. 

*Inder Makin, MD, PhD, SOMA Basic Medical Science, “Tissue Repair using Sono-Responsive Biosealants and Intense Focused Ultrasound" (Arizona State University Prime, Sub to SOMA), National Institutes of Health–National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (R21), $126,710, July 2023 – June 2025.

*Scott Howell, DMD, MPH, ASDOH Pre-Doc Education, “ASDOH's Clinical Education & Outreach (CEO) Clinic,” Delta Dental of Arizona Foundation, $30,000, January 2023 – December 2023.

*Romana Muller, RDH, MSDH, EdD, MOSDOH Clinical Education, “International Children's Day of Healthy Smiles,” Mars Wrigley Foundation/American Dental Hygienists' Association, $5,000, January 2023 – December 2023.