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October 02, 2026

Congratulations to the Intramural Grants Program (IGP) Awardees!!!

Please join us in congratulating the awardees of the Intramural Grants Program (IGP). The Program assists and encourages faculty to develop research programs that can successfully compete for extramural funding, encourage clinical and translational research between colleagues, and to provide bridge funds when applicable.

Awardees:

Dr. Jennifer Bradford, Dr. Michael Washington,

& Dr. Ahmed El-Awady

College of Science and Mathematics, Biology

Dental College of Georgia, Periodontics

"A Bacterial Model for Near-Infrared Laser Biostimulation and In vitro Host-

Pathogen Interaction"

 

Dr. Brett Burrows

School of Public Health, Community and Behavioral Health Sciences

“Frailty and physical rehabilitation in patients on dialysis”

 

Dr. Shiwei Fang & Dr. Shungeng Zhang

School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Computer Science

"Predictive and QoSAware Resource Allocation for Multi-Tenant

Edge AI Inference”

 

Dr. Richard McIndoe

Medical College of Georgia, Center for Biotechnology & Genomic Medicine

"Cellivista Nexus: A local-first, human-audited agentic platform for

reproducible multi-omics discovery”

 

Dr. Syed Adeel Zaidi

Medical College of Georgia, Vascular Biology Center

"Targeting Ornithine Decarboxylase as a Novel Disease-Modifying

Therapy for Diabetic Retinopathy”

 

Dr. Jianqiu Zou

Medical College of Georgia, Vascular Biology Center

"Physiological Roles of Cullin 5 Neddylation in the Heart”

Please join us in congratulating the IGP Awardees!

If you have questions, please email PILOTGRANTS@augusta.edu.

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