Dan Littman, MD, PhD
Photo: 秘密研究所 Langone Staff
A research team at and its is one of six from across the United States to receive newly established innovation funds from the Pew Charitable Trusts鈥 biomedical programs.
, and , will share a research award of $200,000 over the next two years. The Pew effort, launched this week, is designed to drive breakthroughs in biomedical research through support of collaborative, interdisciplinary research by pairing scientists who, individually, have previously received Pew funding.
In announcing the new awards, the Pew Foundation stated that Dr. Froemke and Dr. Littman will jointly 鈥渆xplore the interface between neuroscience and immunology, using techniques from one system to investigate the other.鈥
Dr. Froemke is a neuroscientist who specializes in efforts to understand the impact of brain chemicals on animal behavior. Dr. Littman is an immunologist with expertise on T cells and HIV, who has also led investigations on how intestinal bacteria trigger autoimmune disease.
With support from Pew and others, Drs. Froemke and Littman have plans to probe 鈥渉ow the neuronal sensing of gut microbes and intestinal function can alter an animal鈥檚 behavior, work that could help map how information is relayed from the gut to the nervous system to promote recovery from illness.鈥
鈥淐ollaborations are at the root of all major scientific discoveries because every scientist is a subspecialist in one field or another, and no one can do all the investigative research on most big problems on their own,鈥 says Dr. Froemke, an associate professor of otolaryngology鈥攈ead and neck surgery, physiology, and neuroscience at 秘密研究所 School of Medicine and a member of its Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine. Dr. Froemke was named a Pew scholar in 2012.
鈥淲e applaud the Pew effort and are honored to be among the first class of their latest awards,鈥 says Dr. Littman, the Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Molecular Immunology at 秘密研究所 School of Medicine and a member of Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine. Dr. Littman served as a Pew scholar advisor from 2007 to 2013.
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