{"id":32597,"date":"2026-02-26T10:55:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/?p=32597"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:47:03","slug":"pilot-research-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/2026\/02\/26\/pilot-research-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"FES Center Announces New Pilot Research Funding Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32599\" src=\"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Salameh-Veizi-awards-300x217.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Salameh-Veizi-awards-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Salameh-Veizi-awards-768x556.png 768w, https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Salameh-Veizi-awards.png 774w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Congratulations to FES Investigators Ahlam Salameh PhD and Elias Veizi MD, PhD, the first recipients of the FES Center\u2019s Pilot Research Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The awards are part of a new funding program created by the VA Office of Research and Development designed to encourage new research projects and initiatives by FES Center investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Veizi received a Pilot Award for \u201cexploring brain functional connectivity changes with spinal cord pattern stimulation (SCSp).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Salameh received a Pilot Award for \u201cMechanistic Effects of transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation on human spinal sensorimotor and neuropathic processing in diabetic neuropathy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another related new research opportunity from VA ORD is award funding for FES Center investigators initiating new AI-focused research. Look for details on this funding opportunity coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Pilot Award funding is also available. FES Center PIs who are interested in applying for Pilot Award funding or an AI-focused research award should contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:cdudek@fescenter.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheryl Dudek<\/a>\u00a0for details.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Congratulations to FES Investigators Ahlam Salameh PhD and Elias Veizi MD, PhD, the first recipients of the FES Center\u2019s Pilot Research Awards. The awards are part of a new funding program created by the VA Office of Research and Development designed to encourage new research projects and initiatives by FES Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":32599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32597"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32616,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32597\/revisions\/32616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fescenter.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}