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New and Competitively Renewed
Peer-Reviewed Awards Received in 2018



Dr. Marwah Abdalla    
Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/American Heart Association
“The Association of Sleep Architecture and Blood Pressure Dipping”
   

Dr. Julian Abrams    
1-year research grant, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
“Evaluation of Stool-Based Biomarkers for Colonic Neoplasia in Cystic Fibrosis”
   

Dr. Domenico Accili    
3-year grant, The JPB Foundation
“Causes and Treatment of Beta-cell Dedifferentiation in Diabetes”
   

5-year Center Core Grant (P30) competitive renewal, NIH/NIDDK
“Columbia Diabetes Research Center”
   

Dr. Jason Adelman    
5-year new R01, NIH/NICHD
"Effectiveness of Pictographs to Prevent Wrong-Patient Errors in the NICU"
  Abstract

Drs. Jason Adelman and R. Graham Barr    
5-year Institutional Research Training Grant, AHRQ
“Columbia University Patient Safety and Health Services Research Training”
  Abstract

Dr. David Aggen (mentor: Dr. Charles Drake)    
Young Investigator Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology/Conquer Cancer Foundation
“Targeting Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells in Renal Cell Cancer with Combination IL-1 Beta and PD-1 Blockade”
  Abstract

Dr. Jennifer Amengual    
5-year new R01, NIH/NCI
“Development of First-in-Class Histone Acetyltransferase (HAT) Activators for Precision Targeting of Epigenetic Derangements in Lymphoma”
  Abstract

Dr. Michaela Anderson (mentor: Dr. David Lederer)    
1-year Grant-In-Aid, Stony Wold-Herbert Fund
''Intrathoracic Adipose and Acute Respiratory Failure''
   

Dr. Robert Bauer    
5-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
“Regulation of Lipoprotein Metabolism by Adipose-Specific Tribbles-1”
  Abstract

Dr. Natalie Bello    
5-year new Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23), NIH/NHLBI
“Blood Pressure Measurement and Hypertension in Pregnancy”
  Abstract

Marjorie and Lewis Katz Scholar
   

Dr. Brandon Bellows    
5-year Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01), NIH/NHLBI
“Comparing the Value of Intensive Systolic Blood Pressure Treatment Implementation Strategies”
  Abstract

Dr. Elana Bernstein    
1-year Career Development Bridge Funding Award: K Bridge, Rheumatology Research Foundation
“Screen-Detected Interstitial Lung Disease in Systemic Sclerosis”
   

Dr. Jeffrey Birk    
2-year Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21), NIH/NHLBI
“Investigating Fear of Recurrence as a Modifiable Mechanism of Behavior Change to Improve Medication Adherence in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients”
  Abstract

Dr. Bishuang Cai    
3-year Career Development Award, American Heart Association
“The Role of MerTK and MerTK Cleavage in NASH-Related Liver Fibrosis”
   

5-year Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00), NIH/NIDDK
“MerTK in NASH-Related Liver Fibrosis”
 
Abstract

Dr. Francesco Cambuli (mentor Dr. Michael Shen)    
2-year Prostate Cancer Research Program Early Investigator Research Award, DoD/Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program
“Identification of Master Transcriptional Regulators of Neuroendocrine Differentiation in Prostate Cancer”
   

Dr. Richard Carvajal [with Drs. Ozgur Sahin and Eran Schenker (Dept. of Biological Sciences)]    
Columbia Biomedical Technology Accelerator, Columbia Technology Ventures
“A Drug Delivery Injector for Highly Viscous Drug Formulations”
   

Dr. Ya-Wen Chen    
3-year Fellowship, Parker B. Francis Fellowship Program
“Identification of Progenitors in Lung Organoid from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells”
   

Dr. Adi Cohen    
Precision Medicine Pilot Award/Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“Understanding the Role of the Human Microbiome in Graves' Disease with and without Orbitopathy”
   

Dr. Remi Creusot    
5-year R01, NIH/NIAID
In vivo Development and Reactivity of Human Autoreactive T Cells”
  Abstract

Dr. Katherine Crew [Multiple PI award with Dr. Rita Kukafka (Dept. of Biomedical Informatics)]    
5-year new R01, NIH/NCI
“Multicenter Trial of Decision Support for Breast Cancer Chemoprevention”
  Abstract

Drs. Katherine Crew and Gary Schwartz    
4-year Residents Research award (R38), NIH/NCI
“CAPRI: Columbia Cancer Training Program for Resident-Investigators”
  Abstract

Dr. Emily Dimango [Multiple PI award with Dr. Charles Emala (Dept. of Anesthesiology)]    
2-year Exploratory/Developmental Phased Award (R61). NIH/NCCIH
“Ginger's Therapeutic Potential in Asthma”
   

Dr. Pranay Dogra (mentor Dr. Donna Farber)    
3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cancer Research Institute
“Impact of Tissue Location on Antitumor Activity of Human NK Cells”
   

Dr. Charles Drake    
Shared Instrumentation Grant, NIH/Office of the Director
“Helios, a CyTOF System”
   

Dr. Donna Farber    
5-year Program Project (P01) competitive renewal, NIH/NIAID
“Tissue Compartmentalization of Human Lymphocytes”
  Abstract

Dr. Hilda Fernandez    
M. Irené Ferrer Scholar Award in Gender-Specific Medicine
“Gender Differences in Neurocognition in Youth with Chronic Kidney Disease”
   

Dr. Trevor Fidler (mentor: Dr. Alan Tall)    
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
"Mechanisms of Increased Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with Clonal Hematopoiesis"
   

Dr. Barry Fine    
Research grant, Lisa Dean Moseley Foundation
“Stems Cells and Congenital Heart Disease”
   

Dr. Daniel Freedberg    
Research Grant, Feldstein Medical Foundation
"Dietary Fiber to Prevent Loss of Gastrointestinal Colonization Resistance and Pathogen Colonization in the Intensive Care Unit"
   

Pilot Award, Clinical Trials Office/Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“Dietary Fiber to Prevent Loss of Gastrointestinal Colonization Resistance and Pathogen Colonization in the Intensive Care”
   

Dr. Henry Ginsberg    
5-year Institutional Research Training Grant (T32) competitive renewal, NIH/NHLBI
“Postdoctoral Training in Arteriosclerosis Research”
   

Dr. Angela Gomez-Simmonds    
2018-2023 (K23)
“Elucidating Transmission of Plasmids Harboring blaKPC Among Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Using Long-Range Sequencing”
  Abstract

Dr. Rishi Goyal    
President’s Global Innovation Fund, Columbia University
“Colonial Medicine, Literature and Contemporary Healthcare in India”
   

Mr. Christopher Grubb (mentor: Dr. Hasan Garan)    
Glorney-Raisbeck Medical Student Grant in Cardiovascular Research, New York Academy of Medicine
“Electromechanical Wave Imaging: A Novel, Non-Invasive Approach to Localizing Arrhythmias Prior to Catheter Ablation”
   

Dr. Deborah Haisch (mentor: Dr. Neil Schluger)    
1-year Fellowship, Stony Wold-Herbert Fund    

Drs. Scott Hammer and Frank Lowy    
5-year Institutional Research Training Grant (T32) competitive renewal, NIH/NIAID
“Columbia Integrated Training Program in Infectious Diseases Research”
  Abstract

Dr. Arnold Han    
Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
“Precision T Cell Receptor-Based Cancer Therapies”
   

Dr. Dawn Hershman [with Dr. Andreas Hielscher (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering)]    
Columbia Biomedical Technology Accelerator, Columbia Technology Ventures
“Dynamic Optical Tomographic Breast Imaging System (DOTBIS) for Predicting Cancer Therapy Outcome”
   

Dr. Jaime Hook    
Pilot Award, Clinical Trials Office/Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“Novel Mechanisms of Post-Influenza Staphylococcal Lung Injury”
   

Dr. Joanne Hsieh    
5-year Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01), NIH/NIDDK
“Hepatoprotective Mechanisms of TTC39B Deficiency”
   

3-year Career Development Award, American Heart Association
“Regulation of Liver X Receptor by TTC39B”
   

Dr. Syed Husain    
Research Grant, National Kidney Foundation
“Preventing Deceased Donor Kidney Discard by Improving Organ Quality Assessment”
   

Dr. Kevin Kalinsky    
3-year Florence and Herbert Irving Clinical Research Career Award (“Irving Scholars”), Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“Clinical Trial of Systems-Biology Directed Therapy in Patients with Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer”
   

Dr. Jane Kang    
3-year Clinician Scholar Educator Award, Rheumatology Research Foundation
“An Interactive, Case Based, Online Ethics Curriculum for Rheumatology Fellows: Issues in Industry Interactions and Industry Funded Trials“
   

Dr. Krzysztof Kiryluk [Multiple PI award with Dr. Matthias Kretzler (Univ. of Michigan)]    
5-year High Impact Research Grant (RC2), NIH/NIDDK
“Genomics of Glomerular Disease”
  Abstract

Dr. Taiyi Diana Kuo    
4-year Mentored Research Scientist Development Award, NIH/NIDDK
“Epigenetic Regulation by FoxO1 in Pancreatic Beta Cells”
   

Dr. Jared Kushner (mentor: Dr. Steven Marx)    
Glorney-Raisbeck Fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases, New York Academy of Medicine
“Elucidating Mechanisms of Calcium Channel Regulation in the Heart”
   

Dr. David Lederer [Multiple PI award with Dr. Daniel Gottlieb (Brigham and Women's Hospital)]    
4-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
"Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Subclinical Lung Injury in Health and Disease"
   

Drs. Suzanne Lentzsch and Don Landry    
Translational Therapeutics Accelerator (TRx) Pilot Award, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“MAP4K2 as a Therapeutic Target of Multiple Myeloma and Development of Novel Targeting Drugs”
   

Dr. Matthew Lewis    
5-year new Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23), NIH/NHLBI
“The Association of Damaging Genetic Variation with Ventricular Function in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome”
   

Dr. Minghao Liu (Dr. Marcella Walker)    
Research Grant, Endocrine Fellows Foundation
“Trabecular Bone Score in the Evaluation of Vertebral Fracture in Primary Hyperparathyroidism”
   

Dr. Jose Luchsinger    
[Multiple PI award with Drs. Mark Espeland and Kathleen Hayden (Wake Forest University Health Sciences)]
“Long-term Impact of Random Assignment to Intensive Lifestyle Intervention on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: The Action for Health in Diabetes ADRD Study (Look AHEAD-MIND)”
   

[Multiple PI award with Drs. Timothy Hughes and Kathleen Hayden (Wake Forest University Health Sciences)]
5-year new R01, NIH/NIA
“Subclinical Vascular Contributions to Alzheimer's Disease: The Multi Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Multisite Study of AD”
   

[Multiple PI award with Dr. Jennifer Manly (Dept. of Neurology)]
5-year Center Grant (P30), NIH/NIA
“Columbia Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Alzheimer's Disease Disparities (CIRAD)”
   

Dr. Mohsen Maharlooei (mentor: Dr. Megan Sykes)    
Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Diabetes Association
“A Pipeline for Analysis of Diabetogenic T Cell Receptors in vivo
  Abstract

Russell Berrie Foundation Scholar Award, Columbia Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center
   

Dr. Steven Marx [Multiple PI award with Dr. Andrew Marks (Dept. of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics)]    
4-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
“Exploring the Molecular Physiology of Atrial Fibrillation”
  Abstract

[Multiple PI award with Dr. Henry Colecraft (Dept. of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics)]
4-year R01 competitive renewal, NIH/NHLBI
“L-Type Channel Trafficking and Modulation in Heart”
   

Drs. Steven Marx and Alexander Kushnir    
Translational Therapeutics Accelerator (TRx) Pilot Award, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“CalCardia: Fixing Abnormal Calcium Handling in Sick Hearts”
   

Dr. Mathew Matthen [with Dr. Fatemeh Momen-Heravi (College of Dental Medicine)]    
Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Pilot Research (CaMPR) I Planning Grant, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“Tumor-Derived Exosomes as a Biomarker for Response to Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Head and Neck Cancer”
   

Dr. Mathew Maurer    
2-year Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21), NIH/NIA
“Analysis of Lumbar Spine Stenosis Speciments for Early Identification of TTR Cardiac Amyloidosis”
   

Dr. Nathalie Moise    
5-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
“An Information tecHnology approach to implEmenting depression treAtment in caRdiac patienTs: [iHeart Trial]”
   

Dr. John Morrow    
5-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
“Molecular Mechanisms of Arrhythmia Caused by High-Fat Diet”
  Abstract

Dr. Youngji Na    
2-year Mandl Connective Tissue Research Fellowship, CUIMC    

Dr. Thomas Nickolas [Multiple PI award with Dr. Michelle Denburg (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)]    
5-year R01, NIH/NIDDK
“The Impact of Glomerular Disorders on Bone Qualit y and Strength”
  Abstract

Dr. Elizabeth Oelsner    
3-year Florence and Herbert Irving Clinical Research Career Award (“Irving Scholars”), Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“E-Cigarette Effects on Sputum Biology: Identifying Extent and Susceptibility in Healthy Adults”
   

Dr. Kenneth Olive    
3-year research grant, Lustgarten Foundation
“Clinical Translation of Regulatory Network-Based Precision Medicine for Pancreatic Cancer”
   

Dr. Owen O’Connor    
Global T-Cell Lymphoma Clinical Trials Network Consortium, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
   

Clinical Research Professorship, American Cancer Society
   

Dr. Max O'Donnell [Multiple PI award with Dr. Kathy Rivet Amico (Univ. of Michigan)]    
2-year Exploratory/Developmental Grant, NIH/FIC
“Impact of a Multimodal Intervention to Reduce Dual Stigma and Improve Treatment Outcomes in HIV/Drug-Resistant TB co-infected patients in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa”
   

3-year Florence and Herbert Irving Clinical Research Career Award (“Irving Scholars”), Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“A Precision Medicine Approach to Enhanced Detection and Genomic Characterization of Emerging Respiratory Pathogens in Uganda”
   

Dr. Daniel O'Neil (mentor: Dr. Alfred Neugut)    
Endowed Young Investigator Award in memory of Evelyn H. Lauder, American Society of Clinical Oncology/Conquer Cancer Foundation
“Quality of Breast Cancer Care in Five Public Hospitals in South Africa and Effects on Survival”
   

Drs. Utpal Pajvani and Domenico Accili [with Dr. Dieter Egli (Dept. of Pediatrics)]    
Roy and Diana Vagelos Precision Medicine Pilot Award, Columbia University
“Notch2 Polymorphisms as Predictors of Low β-Cell Mass and Increased Type 2-Diabetes Risk”
  Abstract

Dr. Anna Podolanczuk    
5-year new Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23), NIH/NHLBI
“Role of High Density Lipoproteins in Interstitial Lung Disease”
  Abstract

1-year Dalsamer Research Grant, American Lung Association
“Household Dust Microbiome and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis”
   

Dr. Jorge Postigo Fernandez (mentor: Dr. Remi Creusot)    
3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Diabetes Association
“Novel DNA-Based Platforms to Re-Establish Tolerance in Type 1 Diabetes”
   

Dr. Muredach Reilly [Multiple PI award with Dr. Mingyao Li (University of Pennsylvania)]    
4-year R01 competitive renewal, NIH/NHLBI
“Elucidation of Tissue-Specific Transcrip tomic Profiles in Cardio-Metabolic Disease”
  Abstract

Drs. Muredach Reilly and R. Graham Barr [MPI award with Dr. Tuuli Lappalainen (Dept. of Systems Biology)]    
2-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
“Integration of Omics Data to Improve Interpretation of Genetic Risk Variants in Lung Disease”
   

Dr. Ran Reshef    
2-year Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program, Expansion Award, Department of the Army
“Identification of Effector and Suppressive T-Cell Clones in Graft versus-Host Disease”
  Abstract

Dr. Gissette Reyes-Soffer    
Pilot Award, Clinical Trials Office/Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“The Metabolic Effects of Lipoprotein(a) Isoforms”
   

Mr. Daniel Roybal (mentor: Dr. Steven Marx)    
3-year Individual Predoctoral Fellowship, NIH/NHLBI
“Signaling Pathways and Regulators of Calcium Channels in Heart”
   
 
Drs. Sergei Rudchenko, Milan Stojanovic, and Markus Mapara    
4-year new R01, NIH/NBIB
“Graft Engineering of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Products with Molecular Cascades”
   

Dr. Yvonne Saenger    
3-year new R01, FDA
“Ph1 Study of T-Vec Given Endoscopically for Advanced Pancreatic Cancer IN 17248”
   

3-year Florence and Herbert Irving Clinical Research Career Award (“Irving Scholars”), Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“Establishing a Prognostic Immune Signature in Early Stage Melanoma by Measuring mRNA Transcripts Using the NanoString Assay and Quantitative Multiplexed Immuno-Fluorescence”
   

Dr. Rosemary Sampogna    
Precision Medicine Pilot Award/Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“Implementing a Health Screening App to Match People with Lower Limb Loss at High Risk for Low Function to Personalized Physiotherapy and Injury Prevention Education”
   

Dr. Simone Sanna-Cherchi [Multiple PI award with Dr. Peter Sims (Dept. of Systems Biology)]    
2-year Center grant (P20), NIH/NIDDK
“Novel Genomic and Transcriptomic Tools to Study Human Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Tract”
   

Dr. Shawn Sarkaria (mentors: Drs. Gary Schwartz and Lei Ding)    
Harry F. Bisel, MD, Endowed Young Investigator Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology/Conquer Cancer Foundation
“Targeting PDGFRa-Expressing Stromal Cells in Primary Myelofibrosis”
   

Dr. Robert Schwabe [Multiple PI award with Dr. Mxin Chen (Univ of California San Francisco)    
5-year R01, NIH/NCI
“Role of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in Cholangiocarcinoma”
   

Dr. Steven Shea    
2-year Clinical Trial Pilot Studies award (R34), NIH/NHLBI
“Retail Outlet Health Kiosk Hypertension Trial”
   

Dr. Ari Shechter    
5-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
“Poor Sleep, Sedentary Behavior, and Secondary Cardiovascular Risk in Stroke and TIA Patients”
  Abstract

Dr. Michael Shen    
3-year Translational Research Grant, The V Foundation for Cancer Research
“A Co-Clinical Trial of Chemotherapy Response in Bladder Cancer using Patient-Derived Tumor Organoids”
   

2-year JPB Foundation Bladder Cancer Research Innovation Award, Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network
“Modeling Bladder Cancer Metastasis Using Human Patient‐Derived Tumor Organoids”
   

Drs. Michael Shen, Charles Drake, and Andrea Califano    
2-year Stewart J. Rahr Foundation-VAlor Award, Prostate Cancer Foundation
“Master Regulators Underlying Tumor-Microenvironment Interactions in Metastatic Prostate Cancer”
   

Dr. Yuichi Shimada    
3-year Career Development Award, AHA
“Bariatric Surgery and Acute Cardiovascular Events: Analysis of Two Complementary Databases”
   

Dr. Daichi Shimbo    
4-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
“Psychological Stress, and Circadian Patterns of Sodium Excretion and Blood Pressure”
   

[Multiple PI award with Dr. Kristi Reynolds (Kaiser Foundation Research Institute)]
4-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
“Ambulatory blood pressure and falls in older treated patients with hypertension”
   

[Multiple PI award with Dr. Paul Muntner (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
4-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
“Evaluating Novel Approaches for Estimating Awake and Sleep Blood Pressure”
   

Dr. Hans-Willem Snoeck    
2-year research award, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
“Lung and Airway Progenitors Derived from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells”
   

Dr. Mark Snyder    
1-year Grant-In-Aid, Stony Wold-Herbert Fund
“The Role of Tissue Resident Memory T Cells in Both Acute and Chronic Rejection Following Lung Transplantation”
   

Dr. Gissette Reyes Soffer    
4-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
“Unraveling the Complexity of Lipoprotein(a) Metabolism: Human Kinetic Studies”
  Abstract

Dr. Jinsook Son (mentor: Dr. Domenico Accili)    
Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32), NIH/NIDDK
“Analysis of Beta Cell Dedifferentiation using scRNA-seq of Human T2D”
  Abstract

Dr. Craig Spencer    
President’s Global Innovation Fund, Columbia University
“Measuring Human Rights Violations and Mortality Amongst Migrants and Refugees in the Sahel Region”
   

Dr. Marie-Pierre St. Onge    
5-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
“Impact of Circadian Misalignment on Energy Balance Regulation”
  Abstract

1-year Administrative Supplement on Alzheimer's Disease and its Related Dementias, NIH/NHLBI and NIH/NIA
“Effect of Long-Term Sleep Restriction on Energy Balance”
 
Abstract

2-year Strategic Collaborative Grant, American Heart Association
“Timing of Sleep and of Food Intake in Obese Patients with HFpEF”
   

Dr. Milan Stojanovic    
3-year new Software and Hardware Foundations Collaborative Research Grant, National Science Foundation
“Biocompatible I/O Interfaces for Robust Bioorthogonal Molecular Computing"
   

Dr. Alexandros Strikoudis (mentor: Dr. Hans-Willem Snoeck)    
Druckenmiller Fellowship, New York Stem Cell Foundation
“Modeling Pulmonary Fibrosis using Organoids from Genome-Edited Human Pluripotent Stem Cells”
   

Dr. Jennifer Sumner    
5-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
“Identifying Early Intervention Targets for Reducing Cardiovascular Risk in Posttraumatic Stress”
  Abstract

Pilot Award, Clinical Trials Office Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“Developing a Biomarker-Based Metric of Biological Age in Youth”
   

Dr. Ira Surolia    
Research grant, Elsa U. Pardee Foundation
“Developing Simple Prognostic Indicators of Chemotherapy Response in Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma Based on Interrogating the Transcriptome: Using the Complex to get to the Simple"
   

Dr. Megan Sykes    
2-year Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21), NIH/NCATS
“TCR and BCR Deep Sequencing to Distinguish Autoimmune Recurrence from Allograft Rejection”
  Abstract

2-year Directed Research Grant, American Society of Transplantation
“A Specific Biomarker for the Host Anti-Donor T Cell Response”
 
Abstract

Drs. Megan Sykes and David Sachs    
2-year Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research for Dr. Elizabeth Waffarn, NIH/NIAID
“A Tolerance Approach to Xenotransplantation”
   

Dr. Ira Tabas    
5-year Program Project (P01) competitive renewal, NIH/NHLBI
“Mechanisms of Atherogenesis in Insulin Resistance”
  Abstract

Drs. Ira Tabas and Robert Schwabe    
4-year new R01, NIH/NIDDK
“TAZ and YAP in Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis and its Complications”
  Abstract

Dr. Alan Tall    
4-year competitive R01 renewal, NIH/NHLBI
“TTC39B in Metabolism”
  Abstract

Mr. David Thomas (mentor: Dr. Alan Tall)    
Individual M.D./Ph.D. Fellowship, NIH/NHLBI
"Transcriptional Regulation of Macrophage Function by LXR in Atherosclerosis"
   

Dr. Anna Tocheva (mentor: Dr. Adam Mor)    
Fellowship, Eppley Foundation
“Anatomical and Functional Compartmentalization of PD-1 Signaling”
  Abstract

Dr. Marcella Walker    
5-year new R01, NIH/NIAMS
“Skeletal Microstructure - Racial Differences and Genetic Contributors”
  Abstract

Dr. Timothy Wang [Multiple PI award with Drs. Adam Bass (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) and Channing
Der (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)]
   
5-year new R01, NIH/NCI
“The Role of RHOA in Diffuse Gastric Cancer”
  Abstract

Dr. Xiaobo Wang    
3-year Liver Scholar Award, American Liver Foundation
“Regulation and Role of TAZ in NASH-Associated Hepatocellular Carcinoma”
   

Dr. Ruth White (mentor: Dr. Timothy Wang)    
Ewa Maria Kukrika Young Investigator Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology/Conquer Cancer Foundation
“Cholinergic Regulation of the Neural Microenvironment in Pancreatic Cancer”
  Abstract

Dr. Howard Worman [Multiple PI award with Dr. Susan Michaelis (Johns Hopkins University)]    
2-year Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21), NIH/NIA
“Role of Permanently Farnesylated Prelamin in the Cardiovascular Disease of Aging”
   

Dr. Kelley Yan    
2-year research grant, Lisa Dean Moseley Foundation
“Aging and Disease: An Unbiased Approach to Understanding Stem Cell Aging and Potential Therapies”
   

Dr. Jessica Yang (mentor: Dr. Richard Carvajal)    
Endowed Women Who Conquer Cancer Young Investigator Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology/Conquer Cancer Foundation
“Efficacy of Bromodomain and Extra-Terminal (BET) Protein Inhibition in Advanced Uveal Melanoma”
  Abstract

Dr. Siqin Ye    
Marjorie and Lewis Katz Scholar    

Dr. Michael Yin [Multiple PI award with Dr. Sunil Wadhwa (College of Dental Medicine)]    
1-year “Administrative Supplement for Research on Sex/Gender Influences”, NIH/NIDCR
“Oral immune Activation and Alveolar Bone Loss in HIV-infected Postmenopausal Women”
   

Dr. Junjie Yu    
Berrie Fellowship, Columbia Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center    

Dr. Hanrui Zhang    
3-year Pathway to Independence Award (R00), NIH/NHLBI
“Macrophage-Specific Function of GWAS CAD-Associated LIPA Alleles in Atherosclerosis”
   

Pilot Award, Clinical Trials Office/Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“Discover Novel Regulators of Efferocytosis by Genome-Wide CRISPR Screen in Primary Macrophages”