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Funding
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01/2025 - Contracted; Department of Defense; PI: Lee and Webb. SBIR HT942525P0023
01/2025 - 01/2026; 'A Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytoma Atlas “Confirmation”', $20,000, Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Alliance; PI: Feliciano 100%. The major goal of this project is to perform electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry of TSC Patient SEGA samples to confirm results from Single-cell RNA sequencing data.
06/2020 - 05/2024; “Mouse Model of SEGAs” $667,960, Department of Defense (CDMRP/TSCRP); PI: Feliciano 100%. The major goals of this project are to define the roles of TSC genes in neonatal brain development. W81XWH2010447
01/2023-01/2024; “A Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytoma Atlas”, $20,000, Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Alliance; PI: Feliciano 100% The major goal of this project is to perform single-cell RNA sequencing analysis of nuclei from TSC Patient SEGA samples.
01/2022-01/2024; “Mechanisms of Neuropathology in a Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Model”, $75,000, NIH/NIGMS COBRE Pilot Project 5P20GM139767-03 (Subaward); PI: Feliciano 100%. The major goal of this project is to determine the cellular composition of TSC lesions by single cell RNA sequencing and to examine clonal evolution of tumors in TSC.
10/2020; “CU MRI: Live Imaging Inverted Confocal Microscope”, $78,894, Major Research Instrumentation; PI: Feliciano 100%. The major goal of this project was to acquire equipment to enhance the imaging capacity of a group of scientists at Clemson University and to develop a pipeline to help train graduate students.
02/2017 – 01/2020; “Mechanisms of Long-term Arsenic Exposure on Stem Cells”, $390,815, NIH/NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences R15ES027651 total costs. PI: Bain; Feliciano-33%; The goal of this grant is to study the long-term effects of arsenic on brain development.
08/2016 - 08/2020; “Slc7a5-Mtor Regulation of Neural Development”, $442,000.00, NIH/NICHD R15NS096562; PI: Feliciano 100%. The major goal of this project is to define the role of the amino acid transporter Lat1 (Slc7a5) in neurons.
01/2018 - 01/2020; “Cellular rectification of electrical stimulation fields”, $50,000 total, Robert H. Brooks Sports Science Institute; Co-I Feliciano 50%, PI: Wang-50%.
09/2015 - 08/2019; “Extracellular Vesicles Coordinate Corticogenesis” $211,156, Whitehall Foundation, Inc. 3-year grant; PI: Feliciano 100%. The goal of this grant is to generate tools to study extracellular vesicle biology in the brain.
08/2011 - 08/2013; “Role of Perinatal Neuronal Stem Cells in Tuber Formation” $159,126, F32 FHD063233A NIH/NICHD; PI: Feliciano 100%. This award funded the creation of a cortical tuber model for TSC and subependymal nodule model.
08/2010 - 08/2011; “Electrophysiological Analysis of a Malformation of Cortical Development” $45,000, Epilepsy Foundation Fellowship; PI: Feliciano 100%. This award funded electrophysiological work that focused on characterizing TSC Cortical Tuber Model
08/2009 - 08/2010; “Neurobiology of Cortical Systems”, $37,690, NIH/NINDS T32 NS007224; PI for T32: Arnes.
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2023 - 2024; TSC SEGA Pilot Support for the Acquisition and Handling of Tissue Samples; National Institutes of Health, NIH Neurobiobank Tissue Bank; PI: Feliciano
2022 - 2023; TSC SEGA Pilot Support for the Acquisition and Handling of Tissue Samples National Institutes of Health, NIH Neurobiobank Tissue Bank; PI: Feliciano
2015 - 2018; Team Member for CU-MRI grants for new equipment. This institutional grant funded equipment purchases including: Next generation sequencer (Illumina NexT-Seq Benchtop Sequencer) ~$250,000 Droplet Digital PCR (Bio-Rad ddPCR) ~$130,000 Microscale Thermophoresis ~$150,000
2015; Vicky H. Whittemore Award, $1,000, International TSC Research Conference: Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance (award declined)
2014; Human Cerebrospinal Fluid Samples Support for the Acquisition and Handling of Tissue Samples, National Institutes of Health, NICHD Brain and Tissue Bank; PI: Feliciano
2014; Support for the Acquisition and Handling of Tissue Samples, Medical University Of South Carolina, Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. Neuropathology Lab Award; PI: Feliciano
2012-2013; Autism Speaks Pilot Study, Autism Tissue Bank Analysis of Fetal Cerebrospinal Fluid Exosome Content Award
2011; Vicky H. Whittemore Award, $1,000, International TSC Research Conference: Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance
2010-2012; NIH NINDS Loan Repayment Program for Pediatric Research $29,712.56
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