Congratulations to Esther Melamed for receiving an OVPR Research and Creative Grant to support her research project entitled "Unraveling the Mechanisms of Neuropathy in Long COVID".

 The Office of the Vice President for Research, Scholarships and Creative Endeavoers (OVPR) Research and Creative Grants  program provides support of up to $10,000 for specific projects of individual tenured and tenure-track faculty members. The program’s overall objectives are to promote research, outreach and creative activities in all disciplines that will result in publications, patents, recognition, awards or exhibitions/performances appropriate to the PI’s discipline, and/or will improve competitiveness for external funding. Applications are awarded on the basis of merit to the discipline and relevance to the university’s research mission.