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Project Number: | IK6CX002074-01 |
| Title: | CSRD Research Career Scientist Award Application |
| Principal Investigator: | Fatemeh G Haghighi |
| Location: | Bronx, NY |
| Congressional District Code: | 13 |
| Research Service: | Clinical Science R&D |
| Project Period: | October 2019 - September 2024 |
| FY 2021 Funding Amount: | $206,307 |
| Total Award Amount (all years): |
$1,014,508 |
| Abstract: |
View full abstract and other project information on NIH RePORTER Go To NIH RePORTER Excerpt: SUMMARY Dr. Haghighi's research specialty is in medical epigenetics with applications to traumatic brain Injury (TBI), depression, and suicidal behavior. These epigenetic studies involve how genes are differentially transcribed and regulated, within human clinical and postmortem brain samples, providing a snapshot of potential transcriptional regulatory abnormalities associated with disease neuropathology. Dr. Haghighi's clinical studies show how environmental exposure affects the epigenome. Spe... |