Awarded: Jul 01, 2013
$7.78M over 3 years
In 2013, 16 junior physician-scientists each received three-year grants of $486,000 to support their transition from mentored to independent clinical research careers.
2013 CSDA Grantees
Gregory Beatty, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Project: "A Role for Peripheral Blood Monocytes in Regulating Tumor Biology in Pancreatic Cancer"
Catherine Blish, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford University
Project: "Systems Immunology to Understand Antiviral Deficits during Pregnancy"
Yee-Ming Chan, M.D., Ph.D.
Boston Children's Hospital
Project: "The Kisspeptin-Stimulation Test as a Novel Diagnostic Tool for the Evaluation of Delayed Puberty: Addressing an Unmet Medical Need in Adolescents"
Eric Collisson, M.D.
University of California San Francisco
Project: "Personalizing Treatment for Patients with Pancreatic Cancer"
Stavros Drakos, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Utah
Project: "Humans as a Model Organism to Study Metabolic Changes in Heart Failure and Myocardial Recovery"
Shirit Einav, M.D.
Stanford University
Project: "Development of AAK1 and GAK Inhibitors for Combating Drug-Resistant HIV"
Stephanie Eisenbarth, M.D., Ph.D.
Yale University
Project: "Regulating Dendritic Cell Migration during Vaccination"
Santhi Ganesh, M.D.
University of Michigan
Project: "The Genetics of Fibromuscular Dysplasia and Associated Aneurysmal Disease"
Karunesh Ganguly, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California San Francisco
Project: "Electrocorticography Based Control of an Anthropomorphic Upper Limb Exoskeleton"
Johann Gudjonsson, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Project: "Influence of Risk Alleles on the Composition of the Inflammatory Network in Psoriasis and Prioritization for Functional Studies"
Neil Hanchard, M.D. Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
Project: "An Integrated Genomics Approach to Identifying Causal Differences between Edematous and Non-Edematous Severe Childhood Malnutrition"
Adam Lauring, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Project: "Viral Mutant Networks and Effective Influenza Control"
Vinit Mahajan, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Iowa
Project: "Molecular Genetic Mechanisms of Calpain-5 Autoimmunity"
James Murrough, M.D.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University
Project: "Ketamine Plus Lithium as a Novel Pharmacotherapeutic Strategy in Treatment-Resistant Depression"
Sandesh Sreenath Nagamani, M.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
Project: "Nitric Oxide Supplementation as a Therapeutic Intervention in Argininosuccinic Aciduria"
Soumya Raychaudhuri, M.D., Ph.D.
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Project: "Fine-Mapping Causal Genetic Alleles in Rheumatoid Arthritis"