2017 Awardees

Award Type: Pilot

Pi: Flonza Isa | WCM | Medicine               
Co-Pi: Martin Wells | Cornell University | Biological Statistics & Computational Biology

Title of Proposal: Urine Biomarkers for Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Potential for diagnosis and beyond  

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Award Type: Pilot

Pi: Daniel Margolis | WCM | Radiology              
Co-Pi: Himisha Beltran | WCM |  Medicine
Co-Pi: Jim Hu | WCM | Urology

Title of Proposal: Correlation of Molecular Expression With MRI Features   

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Award Type: Pilot

Pi: Yize Zhao | WCM | Healthcare Policy & Research             
Co-Pi: Ronglai Shen | MSKCC | Biostatistics
Co-Pi: Fei Want | WCM | Healthcare Policy & Research

Title of Proposal: Integrative Clustering and Prediction Analysis for Personalized Cancer Genomics  

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Award Type: Pilot

Pi: Yuan-Shan Zhu | WCM | Medicine                
Co-Pi: Martin FleisherMSKCC | Clinical Laboratories

Title of Proposal: Development of PCAT14 LnRNA as an Userful Prostate Cancer Biomarker

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Award Type: Pilot

Pi: Alexandre LeRoux | Animal Medical Center | Radiology               
Co-Pi: Kristy Richards | Cornell University | Biomedical Sciences

Title of Proposal: Use of Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) for the Assesment of In Vivo PD-1 Distribution in Canine B-Cell Lymphoma  

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Award Type: Pilot

Pi: Miguel Otero-Adran | HSS | Tissue Engineering Regeneration & Repair                
Co-Pi: Laura Donlin | HSS | Genomics Research Center
Co-Pi: Scott Rodeo | HSS | Orthopedic Surgery

Title of Proposal: Biologic Activity of PRP and Correlation with Outcomes in Knee Osteoarthritis 

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Award Type: Pilot

Pi: Kyung-Hyun Park-Min | HSS | Research                 
Co-Pi: Justin Cross | MSKCC | Cancer Biology & Genetics

Title of Proposal: Biomarker development for early detection of Osteoporosis 

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Award Type: Pilot

Pi: Daniel Heller | MSKCC | Molecular Pharmacology              
Co-Pi: Richard Goldstein | Animal Medical Center | Internal Medicine
Co-Pi: Nicole Leibman | Animal Medical Center | Medical Oncology

Title of Proposal: Targeted Nanoparticle Clinical Trial in Canine Cancer Patients  

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Award Type: Special Population Pilot

Pi: Oleh Akchurin | WCM | Pediatrics             
Co-Pi: Adele Boskey | HSS | Research 
Co-Pi: Mary Choi | WCMC | Medicine 

Title of Proposal: Iron metabolism and bone health in juvenile chronic kidney disease  

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Award Type: Special Population Pilot

Pi: Alexis Feuer | WCM | Pediatrics              
Co-Pi: Shevaun Doyle |  HSS | Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery

Title of Proposal: Stimulant Medication Use and Bone Mass in Children and Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder 

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Award Type: Community Pilot 

Pi: Linnie Golightly | WCM | Medicine                 
Co-Pi: Marcus Lambert | WCM

Title of Proposal: U-MARC Study: Understanding Motivations for Academic Research Careers  

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Award Type: Community Pilot 

Pi: Kunsook Bernstein | HCSON | Psychiatry                   
Co-Pi: OiSaeng Hong | University of California - San Francisco | Psychology
Co-Pi: Sara Kim | Koeran Community Services of Metropolitan New York, Inc

Title of Proposal: Evaluation of Physical Health and Mental Health Literacy of Korean Americans (KAs) 

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Award Type: Novel Technology Team Pilot 

Pi: Louis Walcer | Cornell University | Institute of Biotechnology                
Co-Pi: Fred Pelzman | WCM | Medicine 

Title of Proposal: Iron Scan: Human validation of a point-of-care iron panel test  

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