Fahd Ahmad, MD, a fellow in pediatric emergency medicine, received two awards from the Academic Pediatric Association: the Ludwig-Seidel Award, which recognizes the abstract that represents the best research project in pediatric emergency medicine in which a fellow is a lead author; and the APA Fellow Research Award, which recognizes research excellence by a fellow in pediatrics. …

Ram Dixit, PhD, assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $634,293 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Role of the Plant Kinesin FRA1 in Constructing the Cell Wall.” …

David Fike, PhD, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $280,456 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Kinetics and Stable Isotopic Fractionation for Abiotic and Microbial Transformations of Elemental Sulfur at Seafloor Hydrothermal Environments.” …

Parinaz Massoumzadeh, PhD, staff scientist in radiology, received a the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Seed Grant for Molecular & Cellular CNS Imaging $25,000 Seed Grant at the society’s annual meeting May 7 in Melbourne, Australia. …

Clay F. Semenkovich, MD, the Herbert S. Gasser Professor of Medicine and Chief of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Lipid Research, has received a four-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease for a study titled “De Novo Lipogenesis and Metabolic Disease.”