To Members of the Department of Medicine:
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Pilot Project Grant awards. We received many meritorious applications. The funded grants are listed below:
Principal Investigator: Dr. Chelsea Estrada
Mentor: Dr. Sandeep Mallipattu
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Project Title: PLVAP mediates endothelial cytoskeletal alterations and injury in glomerular disease
Principal Investigator: Dr. Farrukh Koraishy
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Project Title: The use of Natural Language Processing to Predict acute Kidney Injury in Critically ill patients
Principal Investigator: Dr. Zhongju Liu
Mentor: Dr. Ira Cohen
Division of General, Geriatric and Hospital Medicine
Project Title: Aging: Developmental change of PI3 Kinase signaling in the heart.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Audun Lier
Mentor: Dr. Bettina Fries
Division of Infectious Diseases
Dr. Richard Lin, VAMC
Project Title: Infectious diseases complications, screening, and PrEP uptake among Veterans who inject drugs
Principal Investigator: Dr. Abigail Chua
Mentor: Dr. Sahar Ahmad
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine and Sleep Medicine
Project Title: Diaphragm breath support exercise training in patients w/persistent symptoms following COVID-19: a parallel-group, single-blind, randomized controlled trial
Please join us in congratulating the awardees.
We wish to thank the reviewers for evaluating the applications. We also thank those who submitted the applications and their mentors/division chiefs for supporting their research career.
Sincerely,
Marie Gelato, Ph.D., M.D.
Professor and Chair of Research Committee
Vincent Yang, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Simons Chair of Medicine
