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Anthony Scioli has received a grant for $63,412 from The National Institutes of Health for “New Hampshire IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (NH-INBRE): An Efficacy and Feasibility Study of a Hope-Centered Intervention for Adolescents.” This award provides funds “to evaluate a new, integrative intervention module to instill fundamental (trait) hope in adolescents with mild symptoms of depression. This intervention will be developed and evaluated in the context of a training and research program designed to cultivate hope-centered undergraduate scientist-practitioners.”

Larry Welkowitz has received a grant for $63,006 from The National Institutes of Health for “New Hampshire IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (NH-INBRE): Behavioral and Cortical Effects of Computerized Language Training for Autism.” This award provides funds to assess the effectiveness of an iPad/computer based language training program on conversational speech in adolescents with Autism and to study the generalizability of this training program to real-life social conversation.

Paul Baures has received a grant for $91,932 from The National Institutes of Health for “New Hampshire IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (NH-INBRE): Advancement of a Novel Fatty Acid Synthase Inhibitor.” This award provides funds to advance a novel compound discovered as the most potent inhibitor known of the thioesterase domain of fatty acid synthase by a high-throughput screening effort that started with over 360,000 compounds. The long-term objective of this research is to develop the lead compound into a novel and effective clinical therapeutic for use in the treatment of cancer.

Shannon Mayers has received a grant for $700 from the New England Foundation for the Arts for “International Theatre eXchange.” This award provides funds towards travel expenses for the trip to the International Theatre eXchange/Dublin Theatre Festival in Dublin, Ireland.

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Sarah Kossayda
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Sarah.Kossayda@keene.edu