Five Internal Medicine pre- and post-doctoral researchers were honored with American Heart Association (AHA) fellowship awards. Gokul Patil, MS, PhD; Himani Thakkar, PhD; Vinnyfred Vincent, PhD; Jayashree Jena, PhD; and Ayushi Sood each were notified of their acceptances in December 2024. To be eligible, predoctoral AHA award applicants are required to be full-time students enrolled […]
Sanjana Dayal, PhD, associate professor in Hematology, Oncology, and Blood and Marrow Transplantation, received a renewal on a Veterans Affairs (VA) Merit Award, which she first received in July 2020. With this second round of funding, the Dayal Lab is awarded $300,000 per year for four years through the Clinical Science Research and Development (CSRD) […]
Sanjana Dayal, PhD, has been invited to become a member of the National Institutes of Health’s Hemostasis, Thrombosis, Blood Cells and Transfusion (HTBT) Study Section. Dayal’s role in the group is expected to be at least a four-year commitment (2024–2028), transitioning her from ad hoc to a standing member. As a member, her responsibilities will […]
When Sanjana Dayal, PhD, and her colleagues met for their weekly “Blood Club” on March 12, 2020, they kickstarted a branch of research that would captivate them for years to come. The club, which discusses all things related to benign hematology, was already seeing the budding effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that would quickly become […]
Azaj Ahmed, MSc, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Sanjana Dayal, PhD, FAHA, has received a two-year, $147,292 American Heart Association (AHA) Postdoctoral Fellowship award to pursue his research. He is studying mechanisms of obesity and prediabetes-induced thrombosis using mouse models and clinical samples for his project, in which he is investigating how […]
Sanjana Dayal, PhD, associate professor in Hematology, Oncology, and Blood and Marrow Transplantation (HOBMT), received a four-year $2.34M R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Dayal plans to use this funding to expand her research in the field of aging-associated thrombosis. She will examine the protective mechanisms […]
Sanjana Dayal, PhD, and Steven Lentz, MD, PhD, received a $3.36M R01 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The grant, titled “Cellular Effects of SARS-CoV-2 in Mediating Thrombotic Susceptibility,” will allow Dayal and Lentz to investigate whether an increase in cytokines as a result of COVID-19 can activate blood cells and […]
Sanjana Dayal, PhD, assistant professor in Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation, received a $50,000 COVID-19 Pilot Grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust. This funding will allow Dayal to examine the mechanisms of hypercoagulation in COVID-19 mouse models. Hypercoagulation, also known as excessive blood clotting, tends to occur in COVID-19 patients and often […]
Sanjana Dayal, PhD, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, has received a two-year, $200,000 Innovative Project Award (IPA) from the American Heart Association. Dr. Dayal and her research team will investigate how aging-related changes in the gut microbiome affect thrombosis. This novel study will also examine how the antioxidant glutathione peroxidase 1 (Gpx1) alters the gut […]
Dr. Sanjana Dayal, Assistant Professor of Hematology, Oncology, and Blood & Marrow Transplantation, has received supplemental funding through the NIH’s National Institute of Aging to expand her research into the area of Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s-related dementias. In 2015, she received a 5-year, $1.5M R01 to study age-associated thrombosis. This most recent grant is a […]