2017-18 Pilot Studies Awarded

Awardees BTC Institution Title of Project

James N. Jarvis, MD

Tao Liu, PhD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Neutrophil-based Biomarkers in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Blair D. Johnson, PhD

John J. Leddy, MD

Barry Willer, PhD

Robert Zivadinov, MD, PhD

Michael G. Dwyer, PhD

Jeffrey C. Miecznikowski, PhD

School of Public Health and Health Professions

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Blood Pressure Control in Concussion

Jeffrey M. Lackner, PsyD

Kenyani Davis, MD, MPH

Brian M. Quigley, PhD

Joseph E. Ravenell, MD, MD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions

 

Cutting the risk of colorectal cancer by developing a novel, evidence-based, community based program for increasing screening uptake in Black males

John Leddy, MD

Barry Willer, PhD

Jeffrey Miecznikowski, PhD

Scott Darling, MD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

School of Public Health and Health Professions

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Exercise Treatment for Concussion

Indrajit Majumdar, MBBS

Lucy Mastrandrea, MD, PhD

Andrew H. Talal, MD, MPH

Teresa Quattrin, MD

Carrol M. Harmon, MD, PhD

Leonard H. Epstein, PhD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

 

Role of contingency management in the treatment of youth and their parents in a pediatric tertiary care weight management program

Manoj J. Mammen, MD, MS

Sanjay Sethi, MD

Heather Ochs-Balcom, PhD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

School of Public Health and Health Professions

Determinants of Treatment Failure in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Exacerbation

Robert F. McCormack, MD, MBA

Christine Verni, EdD

Heather A. Lindstrom, PhD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

The Diagnosis of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (DaSH) Study

Rajendram V. Rajnarayanan, PhD

Margarita L. Dubocovich, PhD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Discovery of Circadian Modulators Selectively Targeting Melatonin Receptors

Jessica L. Reynolds, PhD

Bruce R. Troen, MD

Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD

Michael J. LaMonte, PhD, MPH

James N. Jarvis, MD

Zihua Hu, PhD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

School of Public Health and Health Professions

Exosomal biomarkers as predictors of sarcopenia and frailty in WHI participants

Ferdinand Schweser, PhD

Lawrence Wrabetz, MD

Sarah F. Muldoon, PhD

Robert Zivadinov, MD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences

Multimodal multiparametric brain mapping for pre-symptomatic diagnosis and treatment development in Krabbe Disease

Kimberly S. Walitzer, PhD

Javier G. Blanco, PhD

Scott Stewart, MD

Denise Swiatek, PharmD

Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Integrating Naltrexone Treatment, Alcoholics Anonymous Facilitation, and the OPRM1 Polymorphism in the Treatment of Alcohol Dependent Outpatients

Jun Xia, PhD

Linda M. Harris, MD

Sikandar Khan, MD

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

 

Three-dimensional photoacoustic computed tomography for diagnosis and treatment monitoring of chronic leg ulcers

N.B. Jennifer P. Read, PhD, College of Arts and Sciences, Treating violence-related PTSD and substance risk in low-income urban adolescents, received pilot funding 2017-18 as a continuation of Dr. Ellen Volpeā€™s KL2 project.