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COBRE Awards

COBRE 2025 AWARD

Title: A Deep Learning-Based Imaging Platform for Kidney Biopsy

COBRE Participant: Qinggong Tang (Graduated RPL L-Project Co-I)

COBRE Participant Role: Co-I (PI: Chen Wang)   

Source of Support: The Data Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC), University of Oklahoma Award Period: 04/2025-04/2026

Total Award: $5,000 

 

Title: Multiscale Light-Sheet Microscope for Biomedical Research

COBRE Participant: Qinggong Tang (Graduated RPL L-Project Co-I)

COBRE Participant Role: PI   

Source of Support: University of Oklahoma 

Award Period: 4/2025-3/2026

Total Award: $82,427

 

Title: Renal biopsy translation fund

Grant Application Number: 08-79-05678

COBRE Participant: Qinggong Tang (Graduated RPL L-Project Co-I)

COBRE Participant Role: PI   

Source of Support: OKBioStart Launch Program

Award Period: 01/2025-01/2026

Total Award: $75,000

 

Title: Improve Liver Organ Utilization Using a Novel Imaging Platform

Grant Application Number: UT2GM148086- FY2025-004 

COBRE Participant: Qinggong Tang (Graduated RPL L-Project Co-I)

COBRE Participant Role: Co-I (PI: Tri Vu)   

Source of Support: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Award Period: 1/2025-1/2026

Total Award: $25,000 

 

Title: A Liver Viability Evaluation and Graft Outcome Prediction Platform (LVE-GOPP)

Grant Application Number: 08-79-05678

COBRE Participant: Qinggong Tang (Graduated RPL L-Project Co-I)

COBRE Participant Role: PI   

Source of Support: OKBioStart Launch Program

Award Period: 09/2025-09/2026

Total Award: $70,000

 

Title: Pilot study: Microplastic accumulation and nephrotoxic effects in human kidneys.

COBRE Participant: Qinggong Tang (Graduated RPL L-Project Co-I)

COBRE Participant Role: Co-PI   

Source of Support: University of Oklahoma Faculty Investment Program

Award Period: 06/2025-06/2026

Total Award: $15,000

 

Title: Multiparametric Texture Analysis of OCT Imaging for Therapeutic Response Evaluation in Ovarian Cancer Mouse Models

COBRE Participant: Qinggong Tang (Graduated RPL L-Project Co-I)

COBRE Participant Role: Co-I (PI: Qinghao Zhang)   

Source of Support: The Data Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC), University of Oklahoma Award Period: 06/2025-11/2025

Total Award: $2,500 

 

Title: Perfusion Imaging for Human Donor Heart Viability

COBRE Participant: Qinggong Tang (Graduated RPL L-Project Co-I)

COBRE Participant Role: Co-I (PI: Dr. David Miller)   

Source of Support: University of Oklahoma Faculty Investment Program 

Award Period: 9/2025 –8/2026

Total Award: $15,000 

 

Title: Early prostate cancer detection using a novel imaging platform

COBRE Participant: Qinggong Tang (Graduated RPL L-Project Co-I)

COBRE Participant Role: Co-I (PI: Chen Wang)   

Source of Support: Post-Doctoral Seed Grant Program, Stephenson Cancer Center (SCC)

Award Period: 05/2025-04/2026

Total Award: $10,000 

 

Title: Early Detection of Renal Cancer by a Novel Imaging Platform

Grant Application Number: 1351517 

COBRE Participant: Qinggong Tang (Graduated RPL L-Project Co-I)

COBRE Participant Role: Mentor (PI: Chen Wang)   

Source of Support: Research Fellowship, Prevent Cancer Foundation               

 Award Period: 01/2025-01/2027

Total Award: $100,000 

 

COBRE 2024 AWARD

Title: Developing error-proof CRISPR-Cas9 for treating genetic disorders

COBRE Participant: Stefan Wilhelm (Graduated RPL)

COBRE Participant Role: Co-I (PI: Rakhi)

Source of Support: University of Oklahoma, Vice President for Research and Partnerships (VPRP)

Award Period: 3/1/2024 – 2/28/2026

Total Award: $150,000

 

Title: Acquisition of a Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope System

COBRE Participant: Stefan Wilhelm (Graduated RPL)

COBRE Participant Role: PI

Source of Support: Oklahoma Center for Adult Stem Cell Research (OCASCR)

Award Period: 7/1/2024 – 6/30/2025

Total Award: $150,000

 

Title: OVPRP Postdoc Match Funding

COBRE Participant: Stefan Wilhelm (Graduated RPL)

COBRE Participant Role: PI

Source of Support:  OU Vice President for Research and Partnerships (OVPRP)

Award Period: 12/1/2023 – 11/30/2024

Total Award: $16,500

 

Title: Development of a Deep Learning Enhanced Fourier Ptychography Microscopic Scanner to Improve Efficiency for On-site Sample Adequacy Evaluation

Project/Grant Number: CAT-24-1409947-01-CAT

COBRE Participant: Yuchen Qiu (Current RPL)

COBRE Participant Role: PI

Source of Support: American Cancer Society

Award Period: 12/1/2024-11/30/2025

Total Award: $150,000

 

Title: Repurposing Mebendazole for Ovarian cancer Maintenance therapy

COBRE Participant: Lauren Dockery (Current RPL)

COBRE Participant Role: Co-I (PI: Rajani Rai)

Source of Support: Cancer Therapeutics Pilot Grant; OUHSC Stephenson Cancer Center

Award Period: 08/01/2024-04/30/2025

Total Award: $25,000

 

Title: Deciphering the efficacy and mechanism of Mebendazole against chemoresistant Ovarian cancer

Project/Grant Number: 11936

COBRE Participant: Lauren Dockery (Current RPL)

COBRE Participant Role: Co-I (PI: Rajani Rai)

Source of Support: Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) Seed Grant

Award Period: 07/01/2024-06/30/2025

Total Award: $75,000

 

Title: A Pre-Transplantation Donor Liver Viability Evaluation System (LVES)

Project/Grant Number: TRP-24-11

COBRE Participant: Qinggong Tang (Current RPL-Project Co-I)

COBRE Participant Role: PI

Source of Support: Intensifying Translation of Research in Oklahoma (InTRO), NSF

Award Period: 08/2024 - 01/2026

Total Award: $75,000

 

Title: An innovative multi-modal in vivo imaging platform

COBRE Participant: Qinggong Tang (Current RPL-Project Co-I)

COBRE Participant Role: PI

Source of Support: Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships, University of Oklahoma

Award Period: 11/2023-11/2024

Total Award: $60,000

 

Title: Equipment MRI Track 1 - Acquisition of a Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors System for Advancing Research and Education in Quantum, Nanophotonics, and Imaging

Project/Grant Number: 2406666

COBRE Participant: Qinggong Tang (Current RPL-Project Co-I)

COBRE Participant Role: Co-I (PI: Sarah Shariff)

Source of Support: National Science Foundation

Award Period: 10/2024-9/2027

Total Award: $697,870

 

Title: Development of biodegradable graphene quantum dot-hexagonal boron nitride nanocomposites for optical imaging and dual treatment of endometrial cancer via receptor mediated drug delivery and photodynamic therapy

COBRE Participant: Tahrima Rouf (Past PPL)

COBRE Participant Role: PI

Source of Support: OUHSC-SCC Gynecologic Cancer Group: Pilot Project

Award Period: 5/2024-4/2025

Total Award: $20,000

 

Title: Development of protein-based nanostructures activated by ultrasound

Project/Grant Number: R01GM152704-01  

COBRE Participant: Sangpil Yoon (Graduated PPL)

COBRE Participant Role: PI

Source of Support: NIH-NIGMS

Award Period: 2/1/2024-1/31/2029

Total Award: $1,900,000

 

Title: Light scattering device for the development of protein clouds

Project/Grant Number: 3R01GM152704-01S1 

COBRE Participant: Sangpil Yoon (Graduated PPL)

COBRE Participant Role: PI

Source of Support: NIH-NIGMS

Award Period: 2/1/2024-1/31/2029

Total Award: $72,100

March 22, 2022

  • $11.3 Million Federal Grant Establishes New Center for Cancer Research at OU

Under the collaboration and support from Gallogly College of Engineering and Stephenson Cancer Center, a new Oklahoma Center of Medical Imaging for Translational Cancer Research will be established at OU.

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