To Members of the Department of Medicine:
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Pilot Project Grant awards. We received many meritorious applications and five of the projects were selected for funding.
The funded grants are listed:
Principal Investigator: Dr. Charles Vorkas, Divison of Infectious Diseases
Project Title: “Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Folate Metabolites Acting as Inhibitory Ligands for MR1- restricted T cells”
Mentor: Dr. Bettina Fries
Principal Investigator: Dr. Rachel Wong, Division of General Medicine and Department of Biomedical Informatics
Project Title:” Large Language Model Assisted Generation of Discharge Summaries”
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kristine Jang, Division of Cardiology
Project Title: “Role of Multimodal Imaging to Prognosticate and Track Pharmacologic Responses in Transthyretin Amyloidosis”
Mentor: Dr. Andreas Kalogeropoulos
Principal Investigator: Dr. Siu Chiu Chan, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Project Title: "Epigenetic and Transcriptomic Profiling of Cystic Tubular Cells from Pkd1 Mutant Mouse Model”
Mentor: Dr. Peter Igarashi
Principal Investigator: Dr. Suhu Liu, Division of Hematology and Oncology
Project Title: “Explore the Therapeutic Potential of Fenretinide in P53 Mutated Acute Myeloid Leukemia”
Mentor: Dr. Yusuf Hannun
We wish to thank the reviewers for evaluating the applications:
Drs. Agnieszka Bialkowska, Christopher Clarke, Marie Gelato, Susan Lee, Benjamin Luft, Marshall Miller, Brian Sheridan, Getu Teressa
We also thank all those who submitted the applications and their mentors/division chiefs for supporting their research career. Please join us in congratulating the awardees.
Sincerely,
Marie Gelato, PhD, MD
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of Research Committee
Vincent Yang, MD, PhD
SUNY Distinguished Professor and Simons Chair of Medicine
