LPCH Academic Grant Awards

Awards 2014

SPARK

PI:  Paul Bollyky
Repositioning Hymecromone for Type 1 Diabetes Prevention

Co-PIs:  Gilbert Chu, Matthew Kanan
Rapid Small Volume Detection of Blood Ammonia

Co-PIs:  Kevin Grimes, Daria Mochly-Rosen
Student-led Projects to Address Pediatric Indications

Co-PIs:  Alfred T. Lane, Jayakumar Rajadas, M. Peter Marinkovich
Microneedle Patch Delivery of Type VII Collagen to the Skin

PI:  Bruce Ling
Novel Diagnostics for Kawasaki Disease with Vasculitis Biomarkers

PI:  Clara Lo
N-Acetylcysteine for Chronic Immune Thrombocytopenia
Co-PIs:  Peter Marinkovich, Atul Butte

Topical Ion Channel Blockers: A Novel Mechanism to Treat Psoriasis
PI:  Anthony Ricci
Protecting the Inner Ear from Cisplatin Toxicity Using Small Molecule Activators of Aldehyde Dehydrogenase

Co-PIs:  Anthony J. Ricci, Chen Che-Hong
Developing Non-Ototoxic Aminoglycoside Antibiotics

Co-PIs:  Kathleen M. Sakamoto, Mark Smith
Targeting CREB for AML Therapy

PI:  Peter Santa Maria
Heparin Binding – Epidermal Growth Factor as a Treatment for Chronic Tympanic Membrane Perforation

PI:  David K. Stevenson
Chemoprevention of Neonatal Jaundice Using Zinc Protoporphyrin

PI:  Matt van de Rijn
Monoclonal Antibody Inhibiting R0R2 to Treat Sarcomas

Stanford Cancer Institute

PI:  Eric Alejandro Sweet-Cordero
Personalized Genomics in Pediatric Oncology

 

Stanford Cardiovascular Institute (CVI)

PI:  Susan Fernandes
Predicting 10-Year Mortality in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease

PI:  Scott Ceresnak
A Novel Signal Analysis Tool Ablation of Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome (WPW) in Children

Co-PIs:  Seda Tierney, David Rosenthal
Parental Acquisition of Echocardiographic Images in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients Using “Pocket” Ultrasound: A Tele-health Feasibility Study

PI:  Joshua Knowles
Exploring the Role of Maternal Insulin Resistance in Congenital Heart Defects

PI:  Matthew Porteus
Comparison of Isoform Expression Differences by SMRT Sequencing of Isogenic iPS Derived Cardiomyocytes Corrected for the Myotonic Dystrophy Expanded Triplet Report

 

Stanford Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection (ITI)

PI:  Kenneth Weinberg
Optimizing Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Therapy of EPB-PTLD by Clonal Tracking of Viral and Lymphocyte
Populations

PI:  Timothy Sweeney
Prospective Validation of an 11-Gene Set for Distinguishing Sterile SIRS from Sepsis in Pediatric ICU Patients at Admission

 

Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine

PI:  Marius Wernig
Developing a new therapy for childhood white matter diseases

PI:  Michelle Monje
The role of neuronal activity in NF1-associated optic pathway gliomagenesis

PI:  Maria-Grazia Roncarolo
Tr1-mediated killing of primary AML blasts