Pilot Grant Recipients - Round #127 SOM I3 Synergy Cores


16 awards funded, $148,000 total

  • Understanding the role of fibroblast-like synoviocytes in the pain pathology of osteoarthritis
    • Pallavi Bhattaram (Orthopaedics)
  • The Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Factor COX7C Modulates the Secretion of APOE in Human Astrocytes
    • Victor Faundez (Cell Biology)
  • Measuring the effect of LKB1 loss on circadian gene expression in human bronchial epithelial cells
    • Melissa Gilbert-Ross (Hematology & Medical Oncology)
  • Glutamate CEST on 7T MRI in Epilepsy Imaging
    • Ranliang Hu (Radiology & Imaging Sciences), Philip Zhe Sun (Radiology & Imaging Sciences) and Joshua David Brown(Radiology & Imaging Sciences)
  • Unraveling the complex BOLD signal using task-fMRI and task-fMRS at ultra-high field 7T MRI: A pilot aging study
    • Venkatagiri Krishnamurthy (Medicine) and Lisa Krishnamurthy (Medicine)
  • Molecular characterization of the paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration factor, Centrocortin
    • Dorothy Lerit (Cell Biology)
  • Defining the Impact of Therapeutic Plasma Exchange on COVID-19 via Plasma Lipidomics
    • Cheryl Maier (Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
  • Molecular mechanisms of a LIM domain protein in Intellectual Disability
    • Kenneth Myers (Cell Biology)
  • Correlative light-electron microscopy for evaluating virus-induced membrane reorganization
    • Christopher Neufeldt (Microbiology & Immunology)
  • Structural epitope mapping to understand antibody immunity to Zika with implications in vaccine development
    • Anamika Patel (Biochemistry)
  • Transcriptomic effects of VIP Receptor antagonism on CAR T cells
    • Sarwish Rafiq (Hematology & Medical Oncology)
  • Mapping the human gene proteome
    • Nisha Raj (Human Genetics) and Gary Bassell (Cell Biology)
  • Membrane-based Cancer vaccine-induced immune response signatures
    • Periasamy Selvaraj (Pathology & Laboratory Medicine)
  • Development and optimization of whole brain high resolution spectroscopic MRI on 7T
    • Hyunsuk Shim (Radiation Oncology)
  • The role of protein-protein interaction and posttranslational modification in mediating H3E97K and H3E105K oncohistone activity
    • Jennifer Spangle (Radiation Oncology)
  • Interrogation of Sex-Based Differences in the Tumor Immune Microenvironment of Brain Metastases
    • Lisa Sudmeier (Radiation Oncology) and Shawn Kothari (Hematology & Medical Oncology)