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 TypePilot 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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