Kent MacLaughlin receives FSID grant

Kent MacLaughlin
Kent MacLaughlin

Congratulations to Kent MacLaughlin, a graduate student in the Eldridge Lab, for receiving $45k in funding from the Foundation for the Study of Inflammatory Disease. His project, “The inflammatory and genetic response to oxygen dose,” will investigate the effects of low doses of hyperoxia and hyperbaria on the mobilization of pro-angiogenic stem cells and the modulation of inflammatory cytokines. This research project is based on published research conducted in an animal model in 2019 and tests the use of small increases in oxygen as a placebo in brain injury research among U.S. military veterans.