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New and Competitively Renewed
Peer-Reviewed Awards Received in 2020



Dr. Marwah Abdalla    
Grants Program for Junior Faculty who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
“The Association of Sleep Architecture with Blood Pressure Dipping”
   

New 5-year R01, NIH/NHLBI
“Automated Clinic Blood Pressure Assessment and Detection of White Coat and Masked Hypertension Study in African Americans”
   

Dr. Domenico Accili    
4-year competitive R01 renewal, NIH/NIDDK
“Mouse Models of Insulin Resistance
   

5-year competitive R01 renewal, NIH/NIDDK
“Role of Forkhead Proteins in Insulin Action”

   

Dr. Brooke Aggarwal    
2-year research grant, American Heart Association
“Predictors of Weight Change During the Menopausal Transition Using a Precision Medicine Platform: Defining a Phenotype”
   

Dr. Jennifer Amengual    
3-year Florence and Herbert Irving Clinical Research Career Award (“Irving Scholars”), Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“Precision Targeting of HAT Enzymes to Activate Immune Surveillance”
   

Dr. Michaela Restivo Anderson    
Parker B. Francis Fellowship, Francis Family Foundation
“Visceral Adipose Tissue and Frailty in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis”

   

Faculty Development Research Grant/ American Society of Transplantation.
   

5-year Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23), NIH/NHLBI
“Role of Visceral Adipose Tissue in Frailty Among Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis”
   

Dr. David Anstey (mentor: Dr. Daichi Shimbo)    
2-year “Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research”, NIH/NHLBI
Psychological Stress, and Circadian Patterns of Sodium Excretion and Blood Pressure”
   

Dr. R. Graham Barr [Multiple PI award with Dr. Andrew Laine (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering)]    
1-year COVID-19 Administrative Supplement, NIH/NHLBI
“Novel Quantitative Emphysema Subtypes in MESA and SPIROMICS”
   

Dr. Susan Bates    
2-year Translational Research Grant, Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
“Exploiting a Metabolic Vulnerability Created by Epigenetic Therapy”
   

Dr. Natalie Bello    
4-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
“Cardiac Manifestations of Preeclampsia”
   

Dr. Luke Benvenuto    
3-year Lung Consortium grant, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
“Improving Lung Transplant for Cystic Fibrosis Patients”
   

Dr. William Blaner    
4-year R01 competitive renewal, NIH/NIDDK
“Postprandial Vitamin A”
   

Dr. Wellington Cardoso    
1-year COVID-19 Administrative Supplement, NIH/NHLBI
“Mechanisms Controlling Expansion and Lineage Specification of Airway Progenitors in Development and Disease”
   

Drs. Richard Carvajal and Grazia Ambrosini    
[Multi PI award with Dr. Alex Rai (Dept. of Pathology and Cell Biology)]
Pilot Award to Advance Precision Medicine Research, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
"Biological and Therapeutic Relevance of Exosomes in Uveal Melanoma"
   

Dr. Delivette Castor    
Grants Program for Junior Faculty who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
“Introduction and Scale-up of a Novel Long-acting HIV Prevention Intervention for Women in Sub-Saharan Africa”
   

Drs. Delivette Castor & Kathrine Meyers    
The Hepatitis Fund (EndHep2030)
“Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Hepatitis B and C”
   

Dr. Kevin Clerkin    
5-year Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23), NIH/NHLBI
“Identifying Novel Diagnostics and Mechanisms for Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy”
   

Dr. Joyeeta Dastidar    
Addressing Racism: Faculty Seed Grant Opportunity - Individual Unit Project, Columbia University/Office of the Provost
“Using Narrative Ethics to Explore Racial Disparities in Healthcare”
   

Amanda Decker (mentor: Dr. Ken Olive)    
3-year Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31), NIH/NCI
“Bacterial Delivery of CXCR7 Nanobodies to Alleviate Immune Suppression in Pancreatic Cancer”
   

Dr. Emily DiMango    
Airways Clinical Research Center, American Lung Association    

Cystic Fibrosis Center, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
   

Dr. Huijuan Dou (mentor: Dr. Alan Tall)    
2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Heart Association
“Role of NETs in Athero-Thrombosis in LNK/SH2B3 Deficient Mice”
   

Dr. Lorna Dove [with Drs. Akhil Shenoy (Dept. of Psychiatry) and Nicole Golden (School of Nursing)]    
Addressing Racism: Faculty Seed Grant Opportunity - Cross-Unit Collaboration, Columbia University/Office of the Provost
“Improving Mobile Health Access and Quality to Black Patients with Liver Disease”
   

Drs. Lorna Dove & Julia Wattacheril [with Drs. Nicole Golden (School of Nursing ) and Jean Emond and Veronica Roye (Dept. of Surgery)]    
Addressing Racism: Faculty Seed Grant Opportunity - Cross-Unit Collaboration, Columbia University/Office of the Provost
“Addressing Inequities in Liver Transplant Evaluation-Identifying and Eliminating Health Worker Bias”
   

Dr. Donald Edmondson    
5-year Science of Behavior Change (SOBC) Resource and Coordinating Center (U24) competing renewal, NIH/NIA
“Columbia University Science of Behavior Change Resource and Coordinating Center”
   

Dr. Andrew Einstein    
Technical Contract, International Atomic Energy Agency
“IAEA Noninvasive Cardiology Protocols Study 2: Best Practice Use in Cardiac SPECT, PET and Computer Tomography”
   

Dr. Li Fang (Mentor: Dr. Hanrui Zhang)    
2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Heart Association
“The Effects of Increased LIPA, a Coronary Heart Disease Risk Gene, on Macrophage and Neutrophil Function”
   

Dr. Trevor Fidler (mentor: Dr. Alan Tall)    
Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32), NIH/NHLBI
“Cardiovascular Consequences of Increased Inflammasome Activation in Jak2vf-Mediated Clonal Hematopoiesis”
   

Dr. Aveline Filliol (Mentor: Dr. Robert Schwabe)    
1-year Fellowship, International Liver Cancer Association
“Deciphering the Role of Hepatic Stellate Cell-Derived Myofibroblasts in Hepatocellular Carcinoma”
   

Dr. Daniel Freedberg    
3-year Florence and Herbert Irving Clinical Research Career Award (“Irving Scholars”), Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“Decreasing Healthcare-Associated Infections by Preventing Gastrointestinal Pathogen Colonization in the Intensive Care Unit”            
   

Dr. Jianing Fu    
2-year Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program Discovery Award, DoD/Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program
“Single-Cell Immune Profiling of Alloreactive T Cells Locally and Systemically in Patients Receiving Intestinal Transplantation”
   

Dr. David Furfaro (mentor: Dr. Max O’Donnell)    
1-year Research Grant in COVID, CHEST Foundation
“Subphenotypes, Inflammatory Profiles, and Antibody Response in Covid-19 ARDS”
   

Dr. Ali Gharavi    
4-year R01 competitive renewal, NIH/NIDDK
“Genetics of Human Renal Hypodysplasia”
   

Dr. Jon Giles [Multiple PI award with Dr. Ahmed Tawakol (Massachusetts General Hospital)]    
1-year High Priority, Short-Term Project Award (R56), NIH/NIAMS
“Neuroimaging Measures of Psychological Distress as Predictors of Articular and Arterial Inflammation and Treatment Response in Rheumatoid Arthritis”
   

Drs. Raymond Givens, Andrea Duran and Donald Edmondson    
Addressing Racism: Faculty Seed Grant Opportunity - Cross-Unit Collaboration, Columbia University/Office of the Provost
“Keeping the Momentum”
   

Dr. Angela Gomez-Simmonds    
Grants Program for Junior Faculty who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
“Tracking the Spread of Multidrug-resistance Genes by Mobile Plasmids in Nursing Homes”

   

Research Grant, Feldstein Medical Foundation
“Long-range Sequencing to Elucidate Multispecies, Plasmid-Mediated Transmission of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase Resistance in an Intensive Care Unit”
   

Dr. Marlena Habal    
1-year Clinical Trial Planning Grant (R34), NIH/NIAID
“Belatacept in De Novo Heart Transplant”
   

1-year Research Grant, Mendez National Institute of Transplantation Foundation
“Targeting HLA antibodies with Belatacept and a Proteasome Inhibitor in Heart Transplantation”
   

Dr. Dawn Hershman    
2-year new Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21), NIH/NCI
“Delays in Acquisition of Oral Antineoplastic Agents”
   

3-year Research Grant, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
“Medication Reminder Application to Improve Medication Adherence in Women with Breast Cancer”

   

5-year Clinical Research Professor Award, American Cancer Society
   

1-year Research Grant, Breast Cancer Research Foundation
“Interventions to Reduce Therapy Related Adverse Effects”
   

Hologic, Inc. Endowed Women Who Conquer Cancer Mentorship Award, Conquer Cancer Foundation/American Society of Clinical Oncology
   

Dr. Chin Hur    
5-year new R01, NIH/NCI
“A Personalized Approach to Targeted Esophageal Cancer Screening”
   

Dr. Benjamin Izar    
3-year Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Scholars Program award
"Immune Fitness Testing with Single-Cell Readouts in Melanoma Patients"
   

Velocity Fellow, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
“Dissecting Melanoma Brain Metastases by Molecular, Spatial, and Functional Single-Cell Profiling”
   

2-year V Scholar Award, V Foundation
“Mechanisms of Liver Metastasis and Associated Resistance to Immunotherapy”
   

Dr. Canan Kasikara (mentor: Dr. Ira Tabas)    
2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Heart Association
“Macrophage PHACTR1 in Efferocytosis and Atherosclerosis”
   

Dr. Shaheer Khan (mentor: Dr. Richard Carvajal)    
1-year New Rhein Young Investigator Award, Conquer Cancer Foundation/American Society of Clinical Oncology
“JAK1/2 Co-Inhibition in Advanced Solid Organ Transplant-Associated Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma”
   

Dr. Krzystof Kiryluk
[Multiple PI award with Drs. Brendan Keating, Malek Kamoun and Abraham Shaked (Univ, of Pennsylvania)]
   
5-year cooperative agreement (U01), NIH/NIAID
“MHC and KIR Sequencing and Association Analyses in the iGeneTRAiN Studies”
   

Dr. Jared Kushner    
3-year Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., Scholars Program award
"Regulators and Interactomes of CaV1.2 in Health and Disease"
   

5-year Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (K08), NIH/NHLBI
“Regulators and Interactomes of CaV1.2 in Health and Disease”
   

Dr. Blandine Laferrere    
5-year new R01, NIH/NIA
“TREAT (Time Restricted EATing) to Improve Cardiometabolic Health”
   

Ms. Kate Lee (mentor: Dr. Chin Hur)    
1-year Medical Student Research Training Supplement, NIH/NIDDK    

Dr. Frank Lowy    
2-year new Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21), NIH/NIAID
“The Molecular Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremias During the Opioid Epidemic: A New York Region Perspective”
   

Dr. Jose Luchsinger [Multiple PI award with Dr. Jeanne Teresi (Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale)]    
2-year new Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21), NIH/NIA
“Measurement and Estimation of Lucidity Prevalence in Persons with Dementia and Neurological Disorders”
   

Dr. Jennifer Lue    
5-year Clinical Scientist Development Grant, American Cancer Society
“Targeting MYD88 Mutated Lymphomas with a Novel IRAK4 Degrader Platform”
   

Ms. Rachel Madley (mentor: Dr. Megan Sykes)    
Predoctoral Individual Fellowship (F31), NIH/NIDDK
“A Study of the Selection and Peripheral Function of Human Insulin-Reactive T-cells in a Type 1 Diabetic Immune System”
   

Ms. Anastasiya Matveyenko (mentor: Dr. Gissette Reyes-Soffer)    
Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research, NIH/NHLBI
“Unraveling the Complexity of Lipoprotein(a) Metabolism: Human Kinetic Studies”
   

Dr. Thomas McConville    
5-year Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (K08), NIH/NIAID
“Elucidating the Genotypic Determinants and Phenotypic Effects of Polymyxin Resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae Utilizing CRISPR-Cas9”
   

Dr. Kathrine Meyers    
5-year new R01, NIH/NIMH [Multiple PI award with Dr. Sarit Golub (CUNY-Hunter College)]
“Synthesizing Best Practice to Accelerate Access to Emerging HIV Prevention Modalities”
   

Dr. Emily Miller (mentor: Dr. Anne-Catrin Uhlemann)    
1-year International Research Seed Funding – COVID 19 and Encephalitis, Encephalitis Society
Defining the Neuroinvasive Potential of SARS-CoV-2 in Brain Autopsies of COVID-19Patients and Controls”
   

Dr. Sumit Mohan    
[Multiple PI award with Dr. Adler Perotte (Dept. of Biomedical Informatics)]
Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Pilot Research (CaMPR) Pilot Award, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“Implementing a Deep Learning Approach to Improve the Assessment of Deceased Donor Kidney Histology”
   

Dr. Nathalie Moise    
2-year Supplement to support Dr. Andrea Duran, NIH/NHLBI
“An Information tecHnology approach to implEmenting depression treAtment in caRdiac patienTs: [iHeart Trial]”

   

Dr. Adam Mor    
5-year new R01, NIH/NIAID
“PAG is a Novel Target in Immunotherapy”
   

Dr. Munemasa Mori    
3-year Peer Review Medical Research Program Expansion Award, DoD/Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program
“Generating Humanized Lungs in Mice for Disease Modeling and Development of Personalized Medicine Therapies”
   

3-year Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program Investigator-Initiated Research Award, DoD/Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program
“A Novel Bioengineering Approach for Generation of Functional Lungs in Swine”
   

Drs. Heather Morris and Krzysztof Kiryluk    
Addressing Racism: Faculty Seed Grant Opportunity - Individual Unit Project, Columbia University/Office of the Provost
“A Revolution in Race-Based Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) Reporting: An Educational Initiative”
   

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee    
1-year Research Grant, Children’s Leukemia Research Association
“Combining lmmunotoxin-Based Conditioning and Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) with Allogeneic HSC Transplantation: A Two-Hit on Leukemia Approach”
   

2-year Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21), NIH/NCI
“Human Donor Stem/Progenitor Cells with Dual Gene Editing (CD33 and CLL-1) Enable "Two Hit" Targeting of Acute Myeloid Leukemia"

   

Dr. Michael Murphy (mentor: Dr. Xuebing Wu)    
2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Heart Association
“Developing a Therapy for Marfan Syndrome using CRISPR-based mRNA Translation Enhancement System”
   

Dr. Jordan Nestor    
Young Investigator Grant, National Kidney Foundation
“Increasing Physician Utilization of Genetic Testing to Personalize Nephrology Care”
   

Dr. Alfred Neugut [Multiple PI award with Drs. Maureen Joffe, Herbert Cubasch, and Paul Ruff (WITS Health Consortium (PTY), Ltd) and Drs. Wafaa El-Sadr and Judith Jacobson (CU Mailman School of Public Health/Department of Epidemiology)]    
5-year new R01, NIH/NCI
“Novel Predictors of Survival Among Breast Cancer Patients With/Without HIV in South Africa”
   

Dr. Alana Nguyen (mentor: Dr. Michael Shen)    
Tomasello Family Women Who Conquer Cancer Young Investigator Award, Conquer Cancer Foundation/American Society of Clinical Oncology
“A Reverse-Engineering Approach to Investigate Drivers of Therapy Resistance in a Co-Clinical Study of Bladder Cancer using Patient-Derived Organoids”
   

Drs. Thomas Nickolas and Krzysztof Kiryluk    
[Multiple PI award with Dr. Stavroula Kousteni (Dept. of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics)]
Pilot Award to Advance Precision Medicine Research, Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
“A microRNA Approach to Identify Renal Osteodystrophy Sub-Type”
   

Dr. Max O'Donnell    
2-year new Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21), NIH/NIAID
“Targeted Next-Generation Sequenci ng to Enhance Detection and Genomic Characterization of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and High-Impact Bacterial Pathogens among HIV-Infected Adults with Sepsis in Uganda”
   

Research Data Sharing Award, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
   

Dr. Elizabeth Oelsner [Multi PI grant with Dr. Tiffany Sanchez (Dept. of Environmental Health Sciences)]    
2-year new Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21), NIH/NHLBI
“Respiratory Health and Cigar and Pipe Use in the NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study”

   

Dr. Kenneth Olive    
2-year new Translational Research Grant, Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
“Therapeutic Induction of Tumor Selective Ferroptosis in Pancreatic Cancer”
   

Dr. Marcella O'Reilly (mentor: Dr. Muredach Reilly)    
2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Heart Association
“Functional Investigation of lincADAIN in Obesity-Induced Adipose Tissue Inflammation”
   

Dr. Lale Ozcan    
3-year new R01, NIH/NIDDK
“Hepatic Rap1 in Glucose Homeostasis”
   

Dr. Priya Palta
[Multiple PI award with Dr. Kelley Gabriel (Univ of Alabama at Birmingham)]
   
4-year new R01, NIH/NIA
“24-hour Activity Cycles to Optimize Cognitive Resilience to Alzheimer’s Disease in African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study”
   

Dr. Utpal Pajvani    
4-year competing renewal, NIH/NIDDK
“Notch, Type 2 Diabetes and NAFLD”
   

Dr. Carolina Petrillo (mentor: Hans W. Snoeck)    
3-year Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Cancer Research Institute
“Role of Mitofusin 2 in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Function and Age-Related Malignancies”
   

Dr. Muredach Reilly    
[Multiple PI award with Dr. Mingyao Li (University of Pennsylvania)]
4-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
“Computational and Functional Strategies to Decipher lncRNAs in Human Atherosclerosis”
   

Dr. Hannah Rosenblum (mentor: Mathew Maurer)    
Glorney-Raisbeck Fellowship, New York Academy of Medicine
“Delineating Mechanisms Underlying the Efficacy of Emerging Therapies for Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis with Noninvasive Pressure-Volume Relationships”
   

Dr. David Sachs    
4-year Regenerative Medicine Focused Research Award (RMFRA), DOD/CDMRP/Defense Medical Research and Development Program/Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine Research Program
“Immunologic Basis for Tolerance of Genetically Disparate Muscle in Chimeric Animals”
   

Dr. Simone Sanna-Cherchi
[Multiple PI award with Drs. Martin Pollak (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), Friedhelm Hildebrandt (Boston’s Children’s Hospital) and Matthew Sampson (University of Michigan)]
   
5-year High impact, Interdisciplinary Science grant, NIH/NIDDK
“Integrating Large Scale Genomics and Functional Studies to Accelerate FSGS/NS Discovery”
   

Dr. Shawn Sarkaria    
1-year Research Training Award for Fellows (RTAF), American Society for Hematology
“Examining Mesenchymal Stromal Cells as a Therapeutic Vulnerability in Primary Myelofibrosis”
   

Dr. Sanjum Sethi    
COVID-19 Rapid Response Award, American Heart Association
“A Comprehensive Assessment of Arterial and Venous Thrombotic Complications in Patients with COVID-19”
   

Dr. Riddhi Shah (mentor: Dr. Sanja Jelic)    
Focused Projects Award for Junior Investigators, American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation
"Insufficient Sleep in Women and Endothelial Cell Oxidative Stress"
   

Dr. Ari Shechter ([Multiple PI award with Dr. Bernard Chang (Dept. of Emergency Medicine)]    
5-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
“The Identification of Modifiable Emergency Department and Sleep Factors Contributing to Psychological and Cardiovascular Risk in Clinicians”
   

Dr. Michael Shen    
5-year new R01, NIH/NCI
“Investigating Lineage Plasticity in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer”
   

Dr. Ji-Yeon Shin    
2-year Research Scholars Program in Liver Disease, Gilead Sciences
“A Novel Subcellular Mediator of Steatosis and NASH”
   

Dr. Magda Sobieszczyk (Multiple PI award with Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr)    
Administrative supplemental funds for the emergency response to COVID-19, NIH/NIAID    

Dr. Milan Stojanovic    
4-year R01, NIH/NIGMS
“Analog-based Approaches to Isolation of Aptamers for Challenging Targets”
   

Dr. Marie Pierre St. Onge [with Dr. Carmela Alcantara (School of Social Work)]    
Addressing Racism: Faculty Seed Grant Opportunity - Cross-Unit Collaboration, Columbia University/Office of the Provost
“Sleep Center of Excellence Seminar Special Series on Discrimination, Social Injustice, and Sleep"
   

Dr. Megan Sykes    
5-year Institutional Research Training Grant, NIH/NIAID
"Training in Translational Immunology Research"
   

[Multiple PI award with Dr. Kazuhiko Yamada (Dept. of Surgery)]
Emergency Competitive Revision, NIH/NIAID
“Human Immune System Mouse Models for Studies of COVID-19”
   

3-year Contract, NIH/NIAID
“Characterizing and Improving Humanized Immune System Mouse Models (IMM-HIS)”
   

Dr. Tara Talaie (mentor: Dr. Megan Sykes)    
2-year Resident Research Fellowship, American College of Surgeons
“The Impact of Hybrid Thymic and Mixed Xenogeneic Chimerism on Tolerance, Homeostasis and Function of T Cells in a Humanized Mouse Model”
   

Dr. Alan Tall    
Transatlantic Networks of Excellence in Cardiovascular, Leducq Foundation for Cardiovascular Research
“Clonal Hematopoiesis and Atherosclerosis and COVID19”
   

Dr. Nato Teteloshvili (mentor: Dr. Remi Creusot)    
3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship, JDRF
“Thymic Selection of Human Diabetogenic T cells”
   

Dr. Emily Tsai    
1-year COVID-19 Rapid Response Award, American Heart Association
“Elucidating the Pathogenesis of COVID-19 Cardiac Disease through snRNA-Seq and Histopathological Analysis of Human Myocardium”
   

Dr. Moriya Tsuji    
2-year new Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21), NIH/NIAID
“Group 1 CD1-Restricted Human T Cells Induced by a Whole Sporozoite-Based Malaria Vaccine
   

Dr. William Turner    
Addressing Racism: Faculty Seed Grant Opportunity - Individual Unit Project, Columbia University/Office of the Provost
“Seminars in African American History of Medicine”
   

Dr. Anne-Catrin Uhlemann    
5-year new R01, NIH/NCI
“The Role of the Microbiome in HPV-Associated Cervical Cancer in Women with HIV”
   

[Multi PI award with Drs. Tal Korem (Dept. of Systems Biology), George Gallos (Dept. of Anesthesiology) and Joy-Sarah Vink (Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology)]
Roy and Diana Vagelos Precision Medicine Pilot Award
“Mechanistic Investigation of the Vaginal Microbiome in Different Manifestations of Spontaneous Preterm Birth”
   

Dr. Elizabeth Verna    
Addressing Racism: Faculty Seed Grant Opportunity - Individual Unit Project, Columbia University/Office of the Provost
“Black Liver Health Initiative - Outreach Campaign"
   

Multiple PI award with Dr. Jasmohan Bajaj (Virginia Commonwealth University)]
2-year new Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21), NIH/NCATS
“Gut Microbiota in the Modulation of Outcomes after Liver Transplant”
   

Dr. Elaine Wan    
1-year Research Grant, Saving Tiny Hearts Society
“Understanding Cardiac Arrhythmias in Congenital Heart Disease using a Novel 3D Panoramic Optical Mapping System”
   

5-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
“Understanding the Role of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Cardiac Arrhythmias using a Novel 3D Panoramic Optical Mapping System”
   

Dr. Nan Wang    
1-year Alzheimer’s-Focused Administrative Supplement, NIH/NHLBI
“JAK2V617F, Clonal Hematopoiesis and Atherosclerosis”
   

Dr. Runsheng Wang    
5-year Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23), NIH/NIAMS
“Comparative Effectiveness Research in Axial Spondyloarthritis”
   

Drs. Sharon Wardlaw and Judith Korner    
5-year new R01, NIH/NIDDK
“Changes in CSF Biomarkers after Bariatric Surgery
   

   
Mr. Gregory Whittemore [mentors: Drs. Simone Sanna-Cherchi and Cathy Mendelsohn (Urology)]    
1-year Medical Student Research Training Supplement, NIH/NIDDK    

Dr. Howard Worman    
5-year competitive R01 renewal, NIH/NIAMS
“Pathogenesis of Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy”
   

[Multi PI award with Dr. Reuven Stein (Tel Aviv University)]
4-year Research Grant, U.S. - Israel Binational Science Foundation
“Non-Canonical Action of Bax at the Nuclear Envelope”
   

Dr. Xuebing Wu    
Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research, Pew Charitable Trusts and the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust
“Dysregulation of Messenger RNA Structure in the Development of Breast Cancer”
   

5-year Director's New Innovator Award (DP2), NIH/Office of the NIH Director
“Genome-Wide Studies of the Noncoding Functions and Mechanisms of Human mRNAs”
   

Dr. Kelley Yan    
Career Scientist Award, Irma T. Hirschl Trust
“Targeting the Stem Cell Niche for Prevention and Treatment of Colorectal Tumorigenesis”
   

5-year Director's New Innovator Award (DP2), NIH/Office of the NIH Director
“Directing Cell Fate Along the Intestinal Enteroendocrine Lineage”
   

5-year new R01, NIH/NIA
“Intestinal Stem Cell Function During Aging and Tumor Initiation”
   

Dr. Hanrui Zhang    
5-year new R01, NIH/NHLBI
“Discovering Wdfy3 as a Novel Regulator of Macrophage Efferocytosis by Genomewide CRISPR Screen”
   

Dr. Emmanuel Zorn    
2-year Emergency Competitive Revision, NIH/NIAID
“Development and Significance of the Plasma Cell Niche in the Human Infant Thymus”
   

Dr. Jason Zucker    
5-year Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23), NIH/NIAID
“Harnessing Bioinformatics for HIV Prevention: Understanding Persistence in Comprehensive HIV Prevention Services”