To Members of the Department of Medicine:
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 DOM Pilot Project Grant awards. We received many meritorious applications and four of the projects were selected for funding.
The funded grants are listed below:
Principal Investigator: Dr. Shipra Agrawal
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Project Title: “Alternative mRNA Polyadenylation in Glomerular Disease”
Principal Investigator: Dr. Samuel Becker
Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology
Project Title: “Protective CD4+ Cell Responses in Rickettsial Infection”
Mentor: Dr. Hwan Kim, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Principal Investigator: Dr. Aikaterini Papamanoli
Divisions of Infectious Diseases
Project Title: “Stony Brook University Infective Endocarditis (IE) Registry”
Mentor: Dr. Andreas Kalogeropoulos
Principal Investigator: Dr. Rachel Wong
Division of Hospital Medicine and Department of Biomedical Informatics
Project Title: “Bridging Data and Care: Using Large Language Models to Improve Real World Understanding of Medication Adherence”
We wish to thank the reviewers for evaluating the applications. 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