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Clinical trials and research at Louisiana State Univ A&m Col Baton Rouge
As of November 12, 2026, Find a Trial lists 89 NIH-funded research projects at this institution, with $39.4 million in listed awards. Every study is explained in plain English. Data from ClinicalTrials.gov and NIH RePORTER, updated November 12, 2026.
- 89NIH research projects
NIH-funded research (newest 40 of 89)
Early-stage science funded by the US National Institutes of Health. Most of these projects don't enroll patients, but they show what is being worked on.
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Bilateral auditory integration and its role in auditory disorders
A study to understand how both ears work together to localize and organize sounds, which could help people with central auditory processing issues.
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Host glutamine metabolism in tuberculosis pathogenesis
A study tests a drug that blocks host glutamine use to help fight tuberculosis by improving immune cells’ ability to kill the bacteria.
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Ras signaling and regulatory T cells to treat allergic airway inflammation
A small, patient-friendly study will explore how Ras signaling affects a type of immune cell that helps control allergic inflammation in the airways of people with allergic asthma.
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Bacterial genome sequencing to boost AMR detection in veterinary-lab networks
A veterinary and public-health project to expand bacterial whole-genome sequencing so labs can quickly identify antibiotic resistance and control outbreaks.
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Microbes and the body's hormonal signals in a tiny worm
This grant looks at how gut microbes affect hormonal signals that control metabolism, using a tiny worm to model how this could influence type 2 diabetes and related heart and kidney issues.
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Leptin and fat cells: how obesity may worsen lung infections like COVID-19 and flu
A study explores how fat tissue and the leptin pathway might change the body's first lung defenses during respiratory infections in people who are obese or have diabetes.
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Inhalation & Infection Core supports airway infection research
A specialized core facility helps researchers study how inhaled pollutants and infections affect the lungs, with training and tools to create realistic exposure models.
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Molecular and Cell Biology Core supports lung biology research
A core facility helps scientists study lung disease using advanced molecular and cellular methods to develop future leaders in this field.
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Pulmonary Immunopathology Core for lung disease research
A dedicated core at LSU helps researchers study how lung diseases develop, using mice and immune tools to advance understanding of acute lung injury and related conditions.
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Center for Lung Biology and Disease Administrative Core at LSU
A center at LSU is funding an Administrative Core to help coordinate and manage lung disease research focused on acute lung injury, asthma, and lung infections.
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Center for Lung Biology and Disease improves lung health
A NIH-funded center is building a stronger program to study lung diseases and support promising junior researchers in pulmonary science.
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Pathways of fatty acid oxidation and how it harms cells
This grant explores how fats in our cells naturally change in ways that can hurt us, and what that means for diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and dementia.
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SSLs: How Staph bacteria dodge our lungs and a potential therapy for pneumonia
This project looks at how Staphylococcus aureus uses SSLs to avoid our immune system in lung infections and explores a possible treatment to prevent pneumonia.
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Data Science and Bioinformatics Core for Biomedical Research at PUIs
A core funded by NIH helps researchers at primarily undergraduate institutions in Louisiana access data science, bioinformatics, and biostatistics tools and training to advance biomedical research.
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Molecular and Cell Biology Resources Core for Louisiana researchers
A resource core helps Louisiana researchers access advanced molecular and cell biology facilities and training to support cancer and other disease-related work at mostly undergraduate institutions.
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Administrative Core of a Louisiana biomedical network
A core team coordinates biomedical research programs in Louisiana and supports researchers and mentors across campuses.
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Louisiana Biomedical Research Network (LBRN) Enhancing Biomedical Research and Student Training
A regional NIH grant supports building biomedical research capacity across Louisiana and strengthens undergraduate training through collaborations, infrastructure, and innovative training platforms.
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Entorhinal cortex slow rhythms and long-term memory in Alzheimer's
This work looks at how slow brain waves in a region called the entorhinal cortex help form long-term memories and how problems with those waves may lead to memory loss in Alzheimer's disease.
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Regulating neutrophil ER stress to improve lung defenses against MRSA
Aimed at helping people with lung infections like MRSA, this grant studies how immune cells called neutrophils manage stress inside their cells to better fight bacteria in the lungs.
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Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Network Program (VetLIRN) Aims to Strengthen Animal Disease Testing
A veterinary diagnostic lab in Louisiana is part of a national network to improve animal disease testing, surveillance, and biosecurity.
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ER stress and proteasome changes in Rickettsia infections
This grant explores how ER stress responses and proteasome function in human-like immune cells affect the behavior of Rickettsia bacteria that cause serious diseases.
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Bilateral hearing: how the two ears combine to understand sound
Scientists are studying how the brain combines information from both ears to tell whether a sound comes from one source or multiple sources, which could help people with hearing difficulties.
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Expanded test of tense and agreement in sentence recall for children with DLD
A new, dialect-informed language task helps identify tense and agreement issues in children with developmental language disorder who speak African American English or Southern White English.
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Discrete bottlebrush polymers as metal-free MRI contrast agents
A new, metal-free MRI contrast agent made from water-soluble, discrete bottlebrush polymers could help doctors see tissues more clearly without using metal-based substances.
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Host-targeted therapy to prevent lung injury from pneumonia-caused sepsis
A patient-focused look at how boosting the body’s own defenses in the lungs could lessen lung and organ damage during severe pneumonia linked to sepsis from bacteria.
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Immune reactions that drive sepsis and organ injury
This research aims to find ways to limit lung and organ damage in people with sepsis by studying how innate immune responses, like inflammasomes, cause inflammation.
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How the inner lining shapes developing organs
Researchers are learning how the thin inner lining of organs controls tube size to better understand conditions like polycystic kidney disease and underdeveloped lungs.
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Mapping cell lipids to find new treatment targets
This project develops ultra-high-resolution ways to map fats inside cells to find targets that could help people with drug-resistant cancers and other diseases linked to lipid problems.
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Detect Ménière's disease using earwax chemical patterns
This project uses computer learning on earwax chemistry to spot Ménière's disease in people who have repeated vertigo, ringing, or hearing changes.
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Understanding how opioid seeking changes in specific brain cells
Researchers are studying how opioid use changes nerve cell activity in the brain to explain why cravings and relapse happen, with a focus on people who may be affected by opioid use disorders.
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Small molecules to break stubborn wound bacteria by blocking their iron storage
Testing new small molecules that block a bacterial iron-storage system to weaken biofilms and help people with chronic infected wounds.
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How tiny cell recycling tubes (lysosomes) affect aging and disease
This research looks at special tubelike lysosomes in cells to learn how boosting their activity might help people stay healthier as they age and reduce problems like heart disease, cancer, and dementia.
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Identifying Shared Keys to Regeneration Across Species
Researchers are studying salamanders and certain fish to uncover the natural signals that could help mammals regrow limbs.
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Exploring new compounds to enhance a viral therapy for breast cancer treatment
This study is exploring new ways to make a special virus treatment for aggressive breast cancer work better, and it could help patients by using both natural and man-made compounds to boost the therapy's effectiveness.
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Understanding what keeps prostate cancer cells dormant
This study is looking at how prostate cancer cells can stay inactive in the bones for a long time and what role a protein called NR2F1 plays in this process, with the hope that understanding this could help develop new treatments to keep these cells from becoming active again.
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Improving testing for antibiotic-resistant bacteria using advanced sequencing techniques
This study is looking at how to use advanced DNA testing to better find and track bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, helping doctors and veterinarians treat infections more effectively and keep everyone healthy.
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Two-part vaccine to prevent Acinetobacter baumannii infections
Developing a two-component vaccine to help protect people from infections caused by the antibiotic-resistant bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii.
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How infants' nose-and-throat immune defenses fight RSV
This work looks at how newborns' mucosal immune responses, especially interferon-alpha and IgA antibodies, help protect infants from RSV infection.
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How unstable polyunsaturated fats break down and damage cells
This project tracks how certain cell fats break down into toxic molecules that can harm mitochondria and contribute to chronic inflammation-related diseases.
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Understanding drug resistance in aggressive breast cancer
This study is looking at triple negative breast cancer, which can be tough to treat, to find out why some cancer cells don't respond to usual therapies, and it hopes to discover new ways to help patients by understanding the proteins involved in this resistance.
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