Grant Awards

Penny Pasque, Professor, Department of Educational Studies

Penny Pasque and the QualLab research team [Dr. Ruth Lu, Mianmian Fei, Sohan Daniel] are spearheading the qualitative aspects of a multi-disciplinary Department of Defense grant on mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and vision impairment. Collaborating with experts across the U.S. and Australia, the team is developing a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) to assess the quality of life for young adults with mTBI-related oculomotor disorders. Through focus groups, interviews, and cross-team data analysis, their work enhances research discovery on quality-of-life domains and bridges critical gaps in understanding participants’ health and well-being.

Keeley Pratt, Associate Professor, Human Sciences

This project will extensively phenotype a large cohort of youth at-risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D), as they transition through puberty, and characterize the course of dysfunction in pathophysiological indicators that lead to T2D. The knowledge gained from this study of the pathophysiology and epidemiology of youth-onset T2D with deep biochemical, clinical, and psychosocial phenotyping will critically inform the design and testing of future treatment and prevention approaches.