Awarded Grants
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2021 Awarded Grants
| Organization: | American Heart Association |
| Description: | A grant to support Cardiovascular Disease Research |
| Amount: | $100,000 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| Organization: | Boysville, Inc. |
| Description: | A grant to support Boysville, Inc. |
| Amount: | $180,000 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| Organization: | Children’s Hospital of San Antonio |
| Description: | A grant to support construction of the Children’s Heart Center and MRI Suite and equipment for the Cardiac Catheterization Suite |
| Amount: | $320,000 in 2021 and $1,280,000 over 4 years |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| Organization: | Foundation Fighting Blindness |
| Description: | A grant to support Age Related Macular Degeneration Research |
| Amount: | $150,000 |
| Location of Grantee: | Columbia, Maryland |
| Organization: | I Care San Antonio |
| Description: | A grant to support Patient Vision Services at Haven for Hope |
| Amount: | $50,000 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| Organization: | Low Vision Resource Center |
| Description: | A grant to support Listener Services |
| Amount: | $5,000 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| Organization: | Muscular Dystrophy Association |
| Description: | A grant to fund research |
| Amount: | $100,000 |
| Location of Grantee: | Chicago, Illinois |
| Organization: | Retina Foundation of the Southwest |
| Description: | A grant to support Retina Research |
| Amount: | $70,000 |
| Location of Grantee: | Dallas, Texas |
| Organization: | UT Health San Antonio |
| Description: | A grant to fund the Voelcker Biomedical Research Academy |
| Amount: | $195,568 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| Organization: | UT Health San Antonio |
| Description: | A grant to assist with construction of the Multispecialty and Research Hospital |
| Amount: | $250,000 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| Organization: | University of Texas, San Antonio |
| Description: | A grant to support the Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Center for Innovative Drug Discovery Preclinical Pharmacology Core for Accelerated Drug Discovery |
| Amount: | $189,000 in 2021 and $883,000 over 3 Years |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| Organization: | UT Health San Antonio |
| Description: | A pilot grant to support Dr. Angelina Vaseva, Ph.D. |
| Amount: | $100,000 |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
2021 Voelcker Fund Young Investigator Awards
| Award Recipient:: | Dr. Lizhen Chen, Ph.D. |
| Institution: | University of Texas Health |
| Project Title: | Enhancer-Associated Roles YAP-TEAD in Breast Cancer Therapy Resistance |
| Amount: | $450,000 (Over 3 Years) |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| Award Recipient:: | Dr. Lindsey MacPherson, Ph.D. |
| Institution: | University of Texas |
| Project Title: | Investigating Taste Rewiring During Chemotherapy Treatment |
| Amount: | $450,000 (Over 3 Years) |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| Award Recipient:: | Dr. Bethany Strunk, Ph.D. |
| Institution: | Trinity University |
| Project Title: | Characterizing a Novel Pathway Associated with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease |
| Amount: | $450,000 (Over 3 Years) |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |
| Award Recipient:: | Dr. Josephina Taverna, M.D. |
| Institution: | University of Texas Health |
| Project Title: | Targeting AXL-JAK1 in Tumors and Immune Ecosystems of Lung Cancer |
| Amount: | $450,000 (Over 3 Years) |
| Location of Grantee: | San Antonio, Texas |