CCTST Awards Faculty with Research Grants
The Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training (CCTST) awarded several pilot grants to UC College of Medicine faculty members to further support their research.
The Pilot Translational Research and Innovative Core Grant Program supports projects by established principal investigators or by new/early stage investigators mentored by established investigators and promotes the establishment of new, innovative cores with a clear translational focus, to build a local or networked infrastructure among researchers.
The following researchers received up to $60,000 grants from the Pilot Translational Research and Innovative Core Grant Program for pilot projects:
- Jack Rubinstein, MD, assistant professor of internal medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases.
- George Deepe, MD, professor of internal medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases.
- Frank McCormack, MD, professor and chief of the Division of Pulmonology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine.
- Stephen Waggoner, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics; Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology (CAGE), Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center.
- Biplab Dasgupta, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics, Division of Oncology; Cincinnati Childrens.
- John van Aalst, MD, professor and division director of plastic surgery in the Department of Pediatrics; Cincinnati Childrens.
The following received up to $50,000 for the development of core research facilities:
- Dennis McGraw, MD, associate professor in the Division of Pulmonology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and director, Cincinnati VA pulmonary (a new research bronchoscopy core at the Cincinnati VA).
- Jason Woods, PhD, professor of pediatrics; Cincinnati Childrens (second year funding for a hyperpolarized-gas core).
- Artem Barski, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics; Cincinnati Childrens (second year funding for an epigenomics data analysis core).
The following received up to $60,000 for mentored pilot projects:
- Paritha Arumugam, instructor of pediatrics; Translational Pulmonary Center, Cincinnati Childrens.
- Joan Garrett, assistant professor in the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy.
The following researchers received up to $7,500 for Just-In-Time grants:
- Robert McCullumsmith, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience.
- Mary Beth Genter, PhD, professor of environmental health.
- Michael Borchers, PhD, associate professor in the Division of Pulmonology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine.
- Eitaro Aihara, PhD, research instructor of molecular and cellular physiology
- Nicolas Nassar, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics; Cincinnati Childrens.
- Yrina Rochman, PhD, instructor of pediatrics; Cincinnati Childrens.
- Daniel Starczynowski, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics; Cincinnati Childrens
- Jianqiang Wu, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics; Cincinnati Childrens.
The mission of the Just-In-Time (JIT) grant program is to enable investigators to use UC or Cincinnati Childrens core facilities to obtain data for submission of a competitive extramural proposal, patent application or commercialization agreement.
>> More information on the programs
The following researchers received KL2 and CT2 career development awards:
KL2: Trisha Wise-Draper, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Division of Hematology Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine.
Also, Pierce Boyne, assistant professor of rehabilitation sciences at the UC College of Allied Health Sciences, was a recipient.
CT2: Kristin Hudock, MD, assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine; and Amie Duncan, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics; Cincinnati Childrens.
Both programs are designed to provide mentorship in research and a career development experience in clinical and translational research for junior faculty, leading toward an independent interdisciplinary scientific career. The KL2 award is CTSA-funded, and the CT2 is its institutional equivalent, supported by the CCTST and the divisions where the researchers are housed.
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