Names:
Vinicio A. de Jesus Perez, MD, FCCP (Assistant Professor of Medicine -UTL)
Roham T. Zamanian, MD, FCCP (Assistant Professor of Medicine-MCL)

Title:
"The role of Wnt signaling in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)."

Department/Division:
DoM - Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Names:
Vivek Bhalla, MD, FASN (Assistant Professor of Medicine)
Fredric B. Kraemer, MD (Professor in Endocrinology).

Title:
"Validation of Novel Biomarkers for Human Diabetic Kidney Disease."

Department/Division:
Bhalla (DoM - Nephrology)
Kraemer (DoM - Endocrinology, Gerontology, and Metabolism)

Names:
Russell Pachynski, Department of Medicine Instructor
Jim Brooks, Professor of Urology
John Leppert, Assistant Professor of Urology
Eugene Butcher, Professor of Pathology

Title:
"Evaluation of the novel tumor suppressive chemoattractant cytokine chemerin in human prostate cancer."

Department/Division:
Pachynski (Medical Oncology)
Brooks (Urology)
Leppert (Urology)
Butcher (Pathology)

Names:
Kohrt, Holbrook Edwin, Asssistant Professor of Medicine
Ronald Levy, Professor of Medicine; Chief

Title:
"Prognostic, Predictive, and Therapeutic Significance of Tumor-Induced Immune Suppression"

Department/Division:

Kohrt (DoM - Oncology)

Levy (DoM - Oncology)

"Non-invasive detection of rejection and infection in solid organ transplant recipients"

• Kiran Khush, MD, MAS: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Heart Transplant Program, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
• Hannah Valantine, MD: Professor of Medicine and Head of Heart Transplant Research, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
• Stephen Quake, DPhil: Professor of Bioengineering
• Iwijn De Vlaminck, PhD: Postdoctoral Scholar, Quake Laboratory, Department of Bioengineering

"Novel antiviral strategies for combating multidrug resistant HIV"

• Shirit Einav, M.D., Assistant Professor; Departments of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology
• David Katzenstein, MD; Professor, Department of Medicine
• Andrew Zolopa, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
• Division (all 3 applicants): Infectious Diseases
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• John P. Cooke, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Associate Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Div. of Cardiovascular Diseases
• Nigam Shah, PhD (Co-Principle Investigator), Assistant Professor of Medicine in Biomedical Informatics

• Aijaz Ahmed, MD; Associate Professor of Medicine, Div.of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
• Scott Boyd, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Pathology
  
  

"Genomics of immunoglobulin light chain (AL) amyloidosis in patients receiving MLN9708, cyclophosphamide and dexamethasone on a phase II trial"

• Shira Dinner (Dept. of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology Fellow)
• Michaela Liedtke, MD; Assistant Professor, Medicine/Hematology (faculty PI)
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"Mining for Clinical Expertise in Undocumented Order Sets"

• Jonathan Chen, MD, PhD (Internal Medicine Resident Fellow)
• Russ Altman (FACULTY PI: Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics and Medicine)
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