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Dr. Ashu Mangalam

Dr. Ashutosh Mangalam Receives a Pilot Grant Award From the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing

Monday, September 10, 2018
Dr. Ashu Mangalam, in collaboration with Dr. Edward Filardo (Department of Surgery), was awarded a seed grant award from the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing (CBB) at the University of Iowa.
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Dr. Ashutosh Mangalam receives a five-year research grant from the National Institutes of Health

Sunday, February 18, 2018
Dr. Ashutosh Mangalam received a five-year NIH R01 research grant entitled “Linking diet, gut microbiota and autoimmune disease: Bacteria induced phytoestrogen metabolites impact immune function in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalitis”.
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Dr. Ashu Mangalam receives a Pilot Grant Award from the Environmental Health Sciences Research Center

Monday, October 2, 2017
Dr. Mangalam was awarded a Pilot Grant Award from the Environmental Health Sciences Research Center at the University of Iowa.

Human Gut-Derived Commensal Bacteria Suppress CNS Inflammatory and Demyelinating Disease

Could healthy gut bacteria hold the key to a new way of treating multiple sclerosis? That is a possibility raised by a new study in mice conducted by scientists with University of Iowa Health Care and Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Dr. Shailesh K. Shahi has been awarded an American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Trainee Travel Award

Saturday, April 29, 2017
Shailesh K. Shahi will present his research findings at the 2017 Annual AAI meeting in Washington D.C. He is working on a research project to decipher the role of gut microbiota in an animal model of multiple sclerosis.

Pathology Faculty Members Receive Carver Trust Medical Research Initiative Grants

Monday, February 13, 2017
Drs. Bradley Ford, Siegfried Janz, Kevin Legge and Ashutosh Mangalam were each awarded $30,000 Medical Research Initiative Grants from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust.