September 2025 Member Grant Awards

Congratulations to the CIEHS members who had new grants, supplements and competitive renewals activated/awarded in the month of September 2025! Below is a list of the new awards. We are so proud of all the hard work of our CIEHS members. You truly are making UofL a nationally recognized premier metropolitan research University and promoting interdisciplinary collaborative research in our Center!

PI Name Other Investigator Long Title Sponsor Amount
Theodore Smith Kevin Sokoloski;
Lauren Anderson;
Rochelle Holm
COVID-19 Wastewater Sampling Louisville Metro Government - LMG $150,000.00
Jun Yan Brian Williams;
Haribabu Bodduluri;
Huang-Ge Zhang;
Jason Chesney;
Juw Park;
Kavitha Yaddanapudi;
Maiying Kong;
Robert Mitchell
Center for Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy (CCII) - Admin Core National Institutes of Health - NIH $766,091.00
Kupper Wintergerst Emily Montgomery;
Lisal Folsom
A Real-World Observational Study Characterizing Patients With Type 1  Diabetes Treated with Teplizumab Industry $4,050.00
Jun Yan Maiying Kong;
Robert Martin
Combining irreversible electroporation with trained immunity to enhance anti-PD-1 therapy in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer American Cancer Society - ACS $599,500.00
Total New Awards September 2025:  $1,520,091.00