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For Donations, please contact Silviya Aleksiyenko
Silviya.Aleksiyenko@med.usc.edu

Current Funding

  • “In vivo Application of Electrical Fields Directs Retinal Ganglion Cell Axon Regeneration,” K08 Career Development Award, NIH/NEI, 2020-2025
  • “Electric Fields Collaborate with Cdc42 to Direct Optic Nerve Regeneration,” National Glaucoma Research Program Award, BrightFocus Foundation, 2020-2022
  • “Novel, Large-Field Gradient, Electrical Stimulator to Accelerate Peripheral Nerve Regeneration into Split Thickness, Skin Graft Donor Sites” Strategic Directions for Research Award, Office of Research at USC, 2021-2023

Prior Funding

  • “Grant Generating mature RGCs from human embryonic stem cells,” Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Stem Cell Core Pilot, 2019
  • NANOS Pilot Award, “Electrical Fields Direct Retinal Ganglion Cell Axon Growth by Modulating GTPase Signaling”, NANOS 2018
  • Zumberge Foundation Individual Grant ”Molecular Signals That Underlie Electrical Field Directed Retinal Ganglion Cell Axon Growth”
  • “Physiologic Electrical Fields Direct Optic Nerve Regeneration” KL2 scholar from Southern California-Center for Translational Sciences Institute; NCATS UL1TR001855
  • Developmental and Systems Biology Training Grant T32 HD060555-01, UC Irvine (awarded, but declined), 2008
  • “A stochastic model of the neuronal gene regulatory network in the olfactory epithelium.” Center for Complex Biological Systems Student Project Grant $10,000, UC Irvine, 2007
  • Neurosciences Training Grant NIH GM-08620, UC Irvine, 2001

Awards

  • Thomas Carlow Young Investigator Award, NANOS 2017, Washington DC, 2017
  • 1st place Resident Research Presentation, Alumni Day, UC Davis Dept of Ophthalmology, 2016“Electrical fields guide Retinal Ganglion Cell Neurite Growth.”
  • Winner of best Resident Poster Presentation, NANOS 2016, Tucson, Arizona, 2016 “Electrical fields direct Retinal Ganglion Cell Axon Growth.”
  • 1st place Resident Research Presentation, Alumni Day, UC Davis Dept of Ophthalmology, 2012“Electrical fields direct Retinal Ganglion Cell Axon Growth.”
  • Graduated with Distinction in Research, UC Irvine, 2009
  • Graduated with Distinction in Community Service, UC Irvine, 2009
  • International Conference in Systems Biology Travel Award, Goteborg, Sweden, 2006
  • Paul H. Silverman Award for Research in Stem Cells, $100 UC Irvine, 2005-2007
  • School of Biological Sciences Travel Award, UC Irvine, 2002
  • MSTP 2nd place oral presentation award, UC Irvine, 2002
  • 2001NINDS/AUPN/ANA Medical Students Mentoring Workshop Scholarship, NIH, 2001
  • AΩA Honors Society Community Service Award, UC Irvine, 2001
  • Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2001
  • Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) fellowship, University of Kansas, 2001
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