More research grants for faculty

Bakshi to study effects of deglobalization with National Science Foundation grant

Bhavik Bakshi and other Ohio State researchers received $2.4 million over the next three years from the National Science Foundation to examine the possible effects of deglobablization and model scenarios that might play out in the Midwest.        

New faculty Swindle-Reilly wins funding

Katelyn Swindle-Reilly received $214k for two years from the Lois Hagelberger-Huebner Young Investigator Award from the Ohio Lions Eye Research Foundation. She is researching how to reduce the number of injections in the eye for patients with wet age-related macular degeneration by improving the effectiveness of Bevacizumab, an anti-VEGF drug.

Winston Ho receives support for commercialization effort

W.S. Winston Ho's group received $71,364 in funding from the Accelerator Awards program in the Office of Technology Commercialization. The funding will help advance the group's spiral-wound membrane module for gas separation. The scope of the project includes a market assessment in the gas separation market, membrane module fabrication, and developing a manufacturing design integration plan for moving to full-scale production of membrane modules.