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2019 Awardees
Award Type: Pilot
Pi: Ghaith Abu Zeinah | WCM | Hematology & Oncology
Co-Pi Name: Agnes Viale | MSKCC | Molecular Biology
Title of Proposal: Blocking Transforming Growth Factor Beta (TGF-ß) Signaling as a Novel Strategy to Treat Anemic Patients with Philadelphia Chromosome-negative Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPNs)
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Award Type: Pilot
Pi: Line Malha | WCM | Medicine/Nephrology
Co-Pi: Iwijn De Vlaminck | Cornell University | Biomedical Engineering
Title of Proposal: Multiscale investigation of maternal plasma to develop prognostic biomarkers of preeclampsia
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Award Type: Pilot
Pi: Heidi Reesink | Cornell University | Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine
Co-Pi: Scott Rodeo | HSS | Orthopaedic Surgery
Co-Pi: Lawrence Bonassar | Cornell University | Biomedical Engineering
Title of Proposal: A one-health approach to osteoarthritis biomarker discovery and therapeutics: from veterinary to human patients
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Award Type: Pilot Special Population
Pi: Lisa Mosconi | WCM | Neurology
Co-Pi: Christine Anne Ganzer | Hunter College | Nursing
Title of Proposal: Alzheimer’s risk is higher in women: exploring the role of endocrine aging on brain metabolism and mitochondrial function
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Award Type: Pilot Precision Medicine
Pi: Esther Babady | MSKCC | Laboratory Medicine
Co-Pi: Alexander Geyer | MSKCC | Medicine
Co-Pi: Sejal Mukund Morjaria | MSKCC | Medicine
Title of Proposal: Characterization of the Lung Mycobiome of Hematopoietic stem cell transplant and Development of Diagnostic Tests for Invasive Fungal Infections
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Award Type: Pilot Community
Pi: Robert Winchell | WCM | Surgery
Co-Pi: William Ricci | HSS | Orthopaedic Trauma Service
Title of Proposal: Dissemination of the Stop the Bleed Training Course in an Urban Community (Stop the Bleed)
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Award Type: Pilot Community
Pi: Aviva Wolff | HSS | Rehabilitation
Co-Pi: Alfred Gelhorn | WCM | Rehabilitation Medicine
Title of Proposal: Effects of an education and prevention program on reducing injury in musicians
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