Past Pilot Award Winners

• 2022 Pilot Award Winners

  2022 Pilot Award Winners

  Project: “Palliative Care Utilization for Older Adults with end Stage Liver Disease”
  Brittany Waterman, MD

  Project: “Somatic copy number alterations in small cell carcinoma of the urinary tract”
  Katharine Collier, MD

  Project: “Host protective immune functions of Stabilin receptors in liver”
  Latha Ganesan, PhD

  Project: “Trajectories, Outcomes, and Mechanisms of Frailty in Older Adults Surviving Critical Illness”
  Nathan Brummel, MD

  Project: “Abnormal cellular respiration caused by cellular hypoxia is associated with lung fibrosis”
  Richard S. Nho, PhD

  Project: “Utilize optogenetic cardioversion to restore sinus rhythm in a novel βII-spectrin AF in vivo model"
  Sakima A. Smith, MD

  Project: “Understanding gaps in the use of telemedicine to improve access to care for the management of hypertension in older adults”
  Sarah MacEwan, PhD

  Project: “Targeting mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and its hostile microenvironment with a novel chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell product”
  Wing Chan, PhD

• 2021 Pilot Award Winners

  2021 Pilot Award Winners

  “Endoscopic Therapy on Quality of Life and Pain in Chronic Pancreatitis: The EQuiPP Study”
  Samuel Han, MD
  Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

  Project: “Genetic Studies of ERBB2 Rare Variants in Dilated Cardiomyopathy”
  Jason Cowan, MD
  Division of Human Genetics

  Project: “Circulating microbial DNA as non-invasive biomarker in colorectal cancer”
  Pannaga Malalur, MD
  Division of Medical Oncology

  Project: “Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of new FDA-approved medications and curative therapies in sickle cell disease”
  Robert Cronin, MD
  Division of General Internal Medicine

  Project: “Is Narcan the New CPR? The Capacity of Ohio Public Libraries as Opioid Responders”
  Janet Childerhose, PhD
  Division of General Internal Medicine

  Project: “The Role of Deubiquitinases in SARS-CoV-2 ARDS"
  Joseph Bednash, MD
  Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
  
  

• 2020 Pilot Award Winners

  2020 Pilot Award Winners

  "Chronic Lung Manifestations of SARS-C0V-2 Pneumonia"
  Elliott Crouser, MD
  Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine 
  
  "Assessment of the Efficacy of Camostat for treatment of COVID-19: the CARE of Ohio Study"
  Philip Hart, MD
  Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
  
  “Open label study to assess the efficacy and safety of Inhaled Epoprostenol in subjects with Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) requiring mechanical ventilation”
  Veronica Franco, MD
  Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
  
  "Automated Population Screening for COVID-19 Illness with Infrared Imaging Using Deep Learning Software"
  Benjamin Kaffenberger, MD
  Division of Dermatology 
  
  "Examination of the Inhibition of Interferon Signaling by SARS-Co/v-2"
  James Londino, PhD
  Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
  
  "Protein profiling of plasma and tracheal aspirate from COVID 19 patients"
  Manjula Karpurapu, PhD
  Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
  
  "COVID-19 and adult congenital heart disease patients"
  Saurabh Rajpal, MBBS
  Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
  
  "Novel spectrin based assay to determine the cardiovascular impact of COVID-19"
  Sakima Smith, MD, MPH
  Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
  
  "Racial disparity in COVID-19 hospitalization and outcomes in a central U.S. Community"
  Taru Saigal, MD
  Division of Hospital Medicine

  "Cardiovascular magnetic resonance to elucidate etiology and impact of myocardial injury in COVID-19 infection"
  Karolina Zareba, MD
  Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

   

   

• 2019 Pilot Award Winners

  2019 Pilot Award Winners

  “Non-neutralizing and neutralizing antibodies accelerate clearance of cell free HIV via an FcγRIIb-mediated effector function of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells”
  “Monocyte-derived dendritic cells as mediators of kidney injury in Lupus Nephritis”
  Latha Ganesan, PhD
  Division of Infectious Diseases
  
  "Targeting a multiprotein super complex controlling oncogenic networks in c-Myc-driven diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL)"
  Lapo Alinari, MD, PhD
  Division of Hematology
  
  "Preventing neutrophilic inflammation in severe asthma by targeting ETosis"
  Sangwoon Chung, PhD
  Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
  
  "Exploiting REV3L Deficiency Associated Genomic Instability for Optimizing Immune Checkpoint Blockade, Chemotherapy and Their Combination Therapy in Lung Cancer"
  Kai He, MD, PhD
  Division of Medical Oncology
  
  “The colorectal cancer risk paradox after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery and persistent obesity: Interplay and mechanistic insights into the role of gut microbiome and lipidomics”
  Hisham Hussan, MD
  Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
  
  “Apolipoprotein L1 Interaction with SNARE Proteins in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Kidney Disease”
  Sethu Madhavan, MBBS
  Division of Nephrology