2024 PERF® -CNS Bridge Grant Award

August 7, 2024

Congratulations to Andra Dingman, MD, PhD, the first recipient of the 2024 PERF® -CNS Bridge Grant Award.

PERF^® in partnership with the Child Neurology Society (CNS) inaugurated the PERF^®-CNS Bridge Grant Program to retain child neurology researchers.  This program is designed to provide bridge funding to promising child neurology researchers who are applying for their first independent National Institutes of Health (NIH) or Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) research support.  Through this grant mechanism, PERF^® and CNS aim to assist investigators who have applied for their first NIH R01 or CIHR Operating/Project Grant support but were not funded.   This award is intended to retain investigators in child neurology clinical, translational, or basic research while they re-apply for NIH or CIHR funding.

Dr. Dingman’s project, Targeting chronic inflammation to improve white matter plasticity after neonatal stroke seeks to establish new strategies to promote regeneration and repair of brain injury after neonatal stroke.
Institution: University of Colorado School of Medicine/Children’s Hospital Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
Mentors: Wendy Macklin, PhD; Bruce Appel, PhD; Ethan Hughes, PhD; Kevin Ess, MD, PhD
Read Dr. Dingman’s bio here.