Pilot/New Ideas Awards

FY2022 Awards

David Lewis, MD
Professor, Pediatrics -  Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology
Study Title: A CRISPR-based pan-respiratory virus prophylactic regimen effective in infants, pregnant women, and other immunologically vulnerable hosts

Ruth Lathi, MD
Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology - Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI)
Study Title: Determining Immune Predictors of Pre-eclampsia Optimizing the NatPro Study

Julia Kaltschmidt, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurosurgery
Study Title: Development and Injury of the Human Fetal Enteric Nervous System, In Vivo and In Vitro

Alison Marsden, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics - Cardiology
Study Title: Elucidating the role of structure and morphometry on mechanobiological drivers of pulmonary arterial hypertension

FY2021 Awards

Jason Andrews, MD, SM
Associate Professor, Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Study Title: Development of a novel point-of-care molecular assay for G6PD deficiency

Rosa Bacchetta, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation)
Study Title: Revealing the Origin of Autoreactive T cells in IPEX Patients

Calvin Kuo, MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine (Hematology)
Study Title: Soil and Seed: An Endometrial Organoid Model of Human Implantation

Laura Prolo, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery
Study Title: Integrated Characterization of the Genomic and Methylomic Landscape of Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas to Identify Determinants of Treatment Response and Outcome

Xinnan Wang, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurosurgery
Study Title: Targeting a Novel Mitochondrial Redox Pathway for Friedreich’s Ataxia

FY2020 Awards

Cristina Alvira, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Critical Care)
Project Title: Diverse Homeostatic Roles for Distinct Macrophage Populations in the Developing Pulmonary Vasculature

Suzan Carmichael, MS, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics (Neonatal and Developmental Medicine) and Obstetrics & Gynecology (Maternal Fetal Medicine)
Project Title: Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Reproductive Health in the US

Kathleen Sakamoto, MD, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology & Oncology)
Project Title: Chromatin Regulation of Erythropoiesis Genes in Diamond Blackfan Anemia

FY2019 Awards

Alice Bertaina MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation)
Project Title: Transposition of Native Chromatin for Fast and Sensitive Epigenomic Profiling of Open Chromatin, DNA-Binding Proteins and Nucleosome Position (ATAC-seq) in JMML

Yair Blumenfeld, MD
Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Maternal Fetal Medicine)
Project Title: Discovery of New Associations Between Drug-Drug Interactions and Adverse Maternal and Neonatal Pregnancy Outcomes

Ravindra Majeti MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine (Hematology)
Project Title: Pre-Leukemic Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Sean M. Wu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Project Title: Preclinical Validation of Cntn2-800: A Novel Optical Imaging Agent to Reduce Intraoperative Damage to the Cardiac Conduction System During Congenital Heart Surgery

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