Marshall University scientists awarded NIH grant focused on chronic kidney disease in women
Komal Sodhi, M.D., an associate professor of surgery and biomedical sciences, and Joseph I. Shapiro, M.D., vice president and dean, of the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine have been awarded a Bench-to-Bedside and Back grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH).
The two-year, $440,000 grant pairs Sodhi as extramural principal investigator and Shapiro as co-principal investigator with Olga Fedorova, Ph.D., a well-established staff scientist at NIH who will serve as an intramural principal investigator on the study. Their collaborative research aims to determine whether cognitive impairment in chronic kidney disease (CKD) is more pronounced in women and what factors may contribute to the development of cognitive impairment in women versus men.