CTRC Junior Investigator Pilot Grant Program Award Recipients Announced
07/2/2009
The Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC), part of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT), recently announced the recipients of the 2009-2010 Junior Investigator Pilot Grant Program awards.
The awards support the work of promising junior investigators by providing grant support of up to $20,000 per year for up to two years, as well as reduced cost access to the infrastructure and support services of the CTRC.
There were a total of 29 applications, and the following list includes the eight Children’s Hospital and Penn investigators who were selected for funding, as well as the titles of their proposals:
- Neha Vapiwala, M.D., Department of Radiation Oncology, “Acquisition of Prostate Tissue During Electromagnetic Transponder Placement for Imaging Correlation and Biomarker Analysis of Targeted Radiosensitizers”
- Jose Pascual-Lopez, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Surgery, “HTS vs. Mannitol for Brain Injury: An RCT Seeking Mechanism of Action”
- James Lee, M.D., Division of Pulmonary Medicine, “Dietary Antioxidant Therapy for the Prevention of Primary Graft Dysfunction in Lung Transplantation”
- Colin Greineder, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Emergency Medicine, “Endothelial Targeted Antioxidant Enzymes During Cardiac Arrest”
- Rajat Deo, M.D., Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, “Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone System and Cardiac Arrhythmias”
- Sogol Mostoufi-Moab, M.D., Division of Hematology/Oncology, “Bone Density and Structure in Pediatric and Young Adult Survivors of Bone Marrow Transplantation”
- Meghan Marsac, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, “Initial Development of the Coping With Trauma Inventory
- for Children”
- Dorit Koren, M.D., Division of Endocrinology, “Glucagon-like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) and Beta-cell Biomass in Newly Diagnosed Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes”
More information regarding this program is available on the ITMAT Web site at www.itmat.upenn.edu.