Pilot/New Ideas Awards

Kanwaljeet S. Anand, MBBS, DPhil
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care Medicine and of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Project Title: Biomarkers of Risk and Resilience in Preschool Children

Rosa Bacchetta, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Stem Cell Transplantation
Project Title: Applying CyTOF to Dissect Automimmunity in Pediatric Patients with Primary Immunodeficiencies

Daniel Bernstein, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology
Project Title: Identifying the Mechanisms of Stress-Induced Mitochondrial Hyperpolarization

Ian H. Gotlib, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology
Project Title: Neural Foundations of Maternal Emotion Regulation: Examining a Risk Factor for Child Maltreatment

Kathleen Sakamoto, MD, PHD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology and Oncology
Project Title: Molecular Characterization of RSK in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Virginia D. Winn, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Reproductive, Stem Cell & Perinatal Biology
Project Title: Early Prediction of Preeclampsia via Machine Learning

Valerie Baker, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Project: Vascular health of children conceived via in vitro fertilization

Anne Dubin, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Cardiology
Project: Stress inoculation through virtual reality in the pediatric electrophysiology laboratory

Sarah Heilshorn, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Material Sciences, Bioengineering
Project: Development of a Tissue-Engineered Small Intestine

Angelle Desiree LaBeaud, MD, MS
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
Project: The Spectrum of Zika Disease in Grenada

Olivia Martinez, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine, Surgery
Project: Evaluating for viral etiologies associated with liver failure of unknown etiology

Karen J. Parker, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Project: Biomarker discovery in children with autism

Julie Parsonnet, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine/HRP, Infectious Diseases/Epidemiology
Project: The skin microbiome, atopic dermatitis and food allergy

Lee Sanders, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics
Project: School-System Consequences of Birth Outcomes: A Medical School-Education School-School District
Collaborative

Dennis Wall, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Systems Medicine
Project: The GapMap Project: A mobile surveillance system to map autism as well as gaps in autism services
globally.

Annelise E. Barron, PhD
Associate Professor, Bioengineering
Project: Biomimetic treatment of ear infections with antimicrobial peptide mimics and surfactants

Jennifer Cochran, PhD
Associate Professor, Bioengineering
Project: Exploiting the Immune System to Treat Pediatric Brain Tumors

David B. Lewis, MD
Professor, Pediatrics, Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology
Project: Immunogenicity of Zika Virus Proteins in Vaccination and Natural Infection

Alison Marsden, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Bioengineering, Cardiology
Project: Hemodynamic determinants of pulmonary valve dysfunction in children with Tetralogy of Fallot

Kathleen Sakamoto, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology
Project: Molecular Characterization of Pediatric CML

Upinder Singh, M.D.
Associate Professor, Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Project: Identifying new drugs against Entamoeba and other parasitic protozoa that cause diarrhea in children

Jeffrey Axelrod, MD, PhD
Professor, Pathology
Project Title: Planar Cell Polarity in Hepatic Cystic Disease

Suzan Carmichael, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics/Neonatology
Project Title: Establishing the Validity of a Mid-Pregnancy Serum Archive for Novel Studies of Perinatal Outcomes

E. Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics Hematology/Oncology
Project Title: Role of lncRNAs in Ewing sarcoma

Elizabeth Mellins, MD
Professor, Pediatrics/Human Gene Therapy and Rheumatology
Project Title: Investigating the role of TMEM178 in Systemic Juvenile Arthritis (sJIA)

Kenneth Wienberg, MD
Professor, Pediatrics/Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplant
Project Title: Optimizing Cytotoxic T Cell Therapy of EBV-PTLD by Clonal Tracking of Viral and Lymphocyte Populations

Manuel Amieva, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases
Project Title: The adherens junctions as targets of Staphylococcus aureus α-toxin

Kenneth Cox, MD
Professor, Pediatrics Gastroenterology
Project Title: Translational Studies using Immune and Microbiota markers in Vancomycin-treated Children with GI disease

Lynne Huffman, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics Neonatal and Developmental Medicine
Project Title: Developing and Testing Case Studies of Shared Decision Making: Treating Children with ASD

James Lock, MD, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Project: Preventing Feeding and Eating Problems in Children of Mothers with EDs: Randomized Case-Series Trial

Elizabeth Mellins, MD
Professor, Pediatrics Human Gene Therapy and Rheumatology
Project Title: Cellular phenotypes in localized scleroderma: biomarkers and clues to pathogenesis

Allan Reiss, MD
Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Child Development
Project Title: The Neural Bases of Attachment Insecurity in Children

Julien Sage, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics Cancer Biology and Genetics
Project Title: Development and characterization of a humanized mouse model for Alagille syndrome

Eric Sibley, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Project Title: Probing SLC26A6 regulation to identify novel drug targets for cystic fibrosis intestinal disease

Dorsey Bass, BA, M.D.
Associate Professor, Pediatrics Gastroentrology & Hepatology
Project: Randomized Trial Using a Novel Plant Extract in C. difficile Colitis

Daniel Bernstein, M.D.
Professor, Pediatrics, Cardiology
Project: Early Detection of Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder By High Throughput V(D)J Sequencing

Kiki Chang, M.D.
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Project: Neurobiologic and Immunologic Markers in Youth with Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS)

Antonio Hardan, M.D.
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Project: Randomized placebo-controlled trial of intranasal arginine vasopressin in children with autism           

Carlos Milla, M.D.
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Pulmonary
Project: Conclusive Diagnostic Testing for Cystic Fibrosis   

Julien Sage, M.D.
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Cancer Biology & Genetics
Project: Molecular genetics of pediatric hepatocellular carcinoma   

Krisa Van Meurs, M.D.
Professor, Pediatrics, Neonatology
Project: A randomized clinical trial of therapeutic hypothermia during transport for HIE: Device regulated cooling versus standard practice                                   

Daniel Bernstein, MD
Professor, Pediatrics Cardiology
Project: i- PSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes to Determine Mechanisms of LV Non-Compaction Cardiomyopathy

Yvonne Maldonado, MD
Professor, Pediatrics Infectious Diseases
Project: Impact of Fecal Microbial Diversity on Shedding of Oral Poliovirus Vaccine

Elizabeth Mellins, MD
Professor, Pediatrics Human Gene Therapy
Project: A novel regulatory T cell population and control of autoimmunity

Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics Immunology and Allergy
Project: Mechanistic Studies on the Role of CD4+ T cells in Food Allergy Immunotherapy

Jessica Rose, PhD
Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
Project: Complex Network Analysis of Neonatal Brain DTI: Prognostic Value for VLBW Preterm Infants

Eric Sibley, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics Gastroenterology
Project: In Vivo Imaging of Chemotherapy‐Induced Intestinal Mucositis

Jeffrey Axelrod, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Pathology
Project: Role of planar cell polarity in nephronophthis

Christopher Contag, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Neonatology
Project: CD8 T cell Trafficking in Adipose Tissue and Insulin Resistance Pathogene

Christopher Contag, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Neonatology
Project: Optimizing the IC2 monoclonal antibody for beta cell mass determination

Heike Daldrup-Link, M.D.
Professor, Pediatric Radiology
Project: Differentiation of bone sarcomas and osteomyelitis with ferumoxyl-enhanced MRI