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School-based e-cigarette education in Alabama: Impact on knowledge of e-cigarettes, perceptions and intent to try. Shivani Mathur Gaihaa, Abigail Duemler, Lauren Silverwoodl Anabel Razo, BonnieHalpern-Felsher & Susan C. Walle. Addictive Behaviors. (Jan 2021)

Precise and broad scope genome editing based on high-specificity Cas9 nickase. Qian Wang, Jin Liu, Josephine M. Janssen, Marie Le Bouteiller, Richard L. Frock, Manuel A.F.V. Gonçalves. Nucleic Acids Research (Jan 2021). 

Measures of both perceived general and specific risks and benefits differentially predict adolescent and young adult tobacco and marijuana use: Findings from a Prospective Cohort. Karma McKelvey, Shivani Mathur Gaiha, Kevin L. Delucchi & Bonnie Halpern-Felsher. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Mar 2021).

Provider implicit bias impacts pediatric Type 1 Diabetes technology recommendations in the United States: Findings from The Gatekeeper Study. Anantta Addala, Sarah Hanes, Diana Naranjo, David Maahs & Korey Hood. Diabetes Science Technology (Apr 2021). 

A feasibility study of a novel delayed cord clamping cart. Neha S. Joshi, Kimber Padua, Jules Sherman, Douglas Schwandt, Lillian Sie, Arun Gupta, Louis P. Halamek & Henry C. Lee. Children (Apr 2021).

NF1 mutation drives neuronal activity-dependent initiation of optic glioma. Yuan Pan, Jared D. Hysinger, Tara Barron, Nicki F. Schindler, Olivia Cobb, Xiaofan Guo, Belgin Yalçın, Corina Anastasaki, Sara B. Mulinyawe, Anitha Ponnuswami, Suzanne Scheaffer, Yu Ma, Kun-Che Chang, Xin Xia, Joseph A. Toonen, James J. Lennon, Erin M. Gibson, John R. Huguenard, Linda M. Liau, Jeffrey L. Goldberg, Michelle Monje & David H. Gutmann. Nature (May 2021).

Ku70 suppresses alternative end-joining in G1-arrested progenitor B cells. Zhuoyi Liang, Vipul Kumar, Marie Le Bouteiller, Jeffrey Zurita, Josefin Kenrick, Sherry G. Lin, Jiangman Lou, Jianqiao Hu, Adam Yongxin Ye, Cristian Boboila, Frederick W. Alt & Richard L. Frock. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (May 2021).

Aberrant dynamics of cognitive control and motor circuits predict distinct restricted and repetitive behaviors in children with autism. Kaustubh Supekar, Srikanth Ryali, Percy Mistry & Vinod Menon. Nature Communications (Jun 2021).

Development of β-globin gene correction in human hematopoietic stem cells as a potential durable treatment for sickle cell disease. Annalisa Lattanzi, Joab Camarena, Premanjali Lahiri, Helen Segal, Waracharee Srifa, Christopher A. Vakulskas, Richard L. Frock, Josefin Kenrick, Ciaran Lee, Narae Talbott, Jason Skowronski, M. Kyle Cromer, Carsten T. Charlesworth, Rasmus O. Bak, Sruthi Mantri, Gang Bao, David DiGiusto, John Tisdale, J. Fraser Wright, Neehar Bhatia, Maria Grazia Roncarolo, Daniel P. Dever & Matthew H. Porteus. Science Translational Medicine (Jun 2021) .

A novel approach to training educators to conduct school-based adolescent e-cigarette education and prevention: Using Tobacco Prevention Toolkit. Adrienne Lazaro, Richard Ceballos, Molly Fischer, Stephen Smuin & Bonnie Halpern-Felsher. Addictive Behaviors (Jul 2021).

(Updates as of June 2021)

Heike Daldrup-Link, MD, was awarded an NIH/NICHD Research Project Grant (R01) for her project, “Theranostics for Pediatric Brain Cancer.” The goal of the project is to develop MMP-14-activatable theranostic nanoparticles (TNPs) for curative treatment of GBM, without causing toxicity to the normal brain. 

Heike Daldrup-Link, MD, received the Cancer Research Institute Technology Impact Award for her project, “Mechanoporation creates New Biomarkers for Cancer Immunotherapy.” With co-investigator Dr. Robbie Majzner, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology & Oncology), they will aim to tailor mechanoporation with a new microfluidics device to enable time-efficient labeling of CAR T-cells with ferumoxytol nanoparticles within 15 minutes or less.

Gary Darmstadt, MD, was honored with the 2021Outstanding Alumnus of Johns Hopkins University. He was selected to the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts (STAGE), Committee on Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health, and Nutrition (MNCAH&N) for the World Health Organization (2020). Dr. Darmstadt was appointed as Chair of the WHO Low Birth Weight Infant Guidelines Development Group (2020) and Co-Chair of the Who Kangaroo Mother Care Working Group (2020). He was also selected as the next Chair of the Secretariat and Steering Committee for the Coalition of Centres in Global Child Health (2021).

Manisha Desai, PhD, was awarded an NIH Research Project Grant (R01) for her project, “Novel machine learning and missing data methods for improving estimates of physical activity, sedentary behavior and sleep using accelerometer data.” The project proposes novel statistical and machine learning methods for processing and analyzing accelerometer data for studying physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep and their effects on outcomes such as cardiovascular health.

Natalia Gomez-Ospina, MD, PhD, received the 2021 Outstanding New Investigator Award from the American Society for Cell and Gene Therapy (ASGCT) and the 2021Young Scientist Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). She also received the 2020 Abbott Nutrition Award in Research by a Young Investigator from the Western Society for Pediatric Research (WSPR).

Angela Lumba-Brown, MD, was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Health to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Board of Scientific Counselors. She is working on large research projects with the CDC to understand the use of neuroimaging in children with head injury.

(Updates as of June 2021)