Julia Sheffler, PhD Receives a Translational Health Research Seed Grant

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Dr. Julia Sheffler was awarded $50,000 through the Clinical Translational Science Award (NIH Award Number UL1TR001427) for her project, Early phase feasibility trial: Examining the effects of diet on genetic and psychosocial risks for Alzheimer’s disease.

These competitive awards are intended to support research by FSU full-time faculty members aimed specifically at collecting preliminary data for a research project that will generate future extramural grant applications. The FSU Translational Health Research Seed Grant Program is supported through a research collaboration of the FSU College of Medicine, the FSU Office of Research, and the University of Florida Clinical Translational Sciences Institute through the NIH National Center Advancing Translational Science (NCATS).