US Federal Projects at the University of Bern
University of Bern researchers are supported by US grants
Over the last 17 years, researchers at the University of Bern have received funding for their projects from several US federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Agriculture.
US-financed projects
National Institutes of Health (NIH) – current projects
Main awards
IeDEA-SA – International Epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS Southern Africa
Co-PI: Matthias Egger (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine)
DTG-RESIST – HIV-1 subtype, specific drug resistance in patients failing Dolutegravir-based 1st, 2nd or 3rd line regimens: the International epidemiological Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA)
PI: Matthias Egger (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine)
Subawards
Personalized Seizure Forecasting: A Precision Medicine Approach
PI: Maxime Baud (Department of Neurology)
SHAPE – Noninvasive Subharmonic Aided Pressure Estimation of Portal Hypertension
PI: Annalisa Berzigotti (Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine)
Harmonist – A Scalable Toolkit for Standardizing and Coordinating Data Sharing Across International Research Networks
PI: Matthias Egger (Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine)
The µSiM-hBBB - a human BBB platform for the study of brain injury mechanisms during systemic infection
PI: Britta Engelhardt (Theodor Kocher Institute)
Bumped-Kinase Inhibitor Drug Development for Toxoplasmosis
PI: Andrew Hemphill (Institute of Parasitology)
Optimization of Lead BKIs for Cryptosporidiosis Therapy
PI: Andrew Hemphill (Institute of Parasitology)
Personalized, antigen-directed immunotherapy delivered to lymph nodes
PI: Mona Mohsen (Department for BioMedical Research)
LQTS-PUFA – Polyunsaturated fatty acids as anti-arrhythmic agents
PI: Katja Odening (Department of Cardiology)
ENIGMA Parkinson's Initiative: A Global Initiative for Parkinson's Disease
PI: Roland Wiest (Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology)
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) – all projects
Current projects
Intestinal Secreted microRNAs as Regulators of the Gut Microflora Driving Inflammatory Bowel Disease
PI: Robert Gaultney (Institute of Tissue Medicine and Pathology)
Site-specific, intra-articular, 'on demand' immunosuppression for long-term functional graft survival in joint allotransplantation in a large animal model
PI: Radu Olariu (Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery)
Targeting PARP Inhibitor Resistance
PI: Sven Rottenberg (Institute of Animal Pathology)
Defining the role of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex in advanced metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) therapy resistance
PI: Mark Rubin (Department for BioMedical Research)
Completed projects
The Role of CRIPTO Signaling in Lethal Prostate Cancer
PI: Marianna Kruithof-de Julio (Department of Urology)
In Vivo and Ex Vivo Models to Study Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury, Endothelial Cell Protection, and Limb Preservation in a Prolonged Field Care Scenario
PI: Robert Rieben (Department for BioMedical Research)
Targeting the Lymphatic System for Modulating Immune Rejection and Promoting Tolerance in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation
PI: Adriano Taddeo (Department for BioMedical Research)