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
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
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.