2022 Pilot Awards

Dr. Brittany Waterman, MD

Dr. Katharine Collier, MD

Dr. Latha Ganesan, PhD

Dr. Nathan Brummel, MD

Dr. Richard S. Nho, PhD

Dr. Sakima A. Smith, MD

Dr. Sarah MacEwan, PhD

Dr. Wing Chan, PhD
Past Pilot Award Winners
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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 NutritionProject: “Genetic Studies of ERBB2 Rare Variants in Dilated Cardiomyopathy”
Jason Cowan, MD
Division of Human GeneticsProject: “Circulating microbial DNA as non-invasive biomarker in colorectal cancer”
Pannaga Malalur, MD
Division of Medical OncologyProject: “Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of new FDA-approved medications and curative therapies in sickle cell disease”
Robert Cronin, MD
Division of General Internal MedicineProject: “Is Narcan the New CPR? The Capacity of Ohio Public Libraries as Opioid Responders”
Janet Childerhose, PhD
Division of General Internal MedicineProject: “The Role of Deubiquitinases in SARS-CoV-2 ARDS"
Joseph Bednash, MD
Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
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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