Awarded: Jul 08, 2015
$8.7M over 3 years
In 2015, 18 physician scientists received three-year grants of $486,000 each to support their transition to independent clinical research careers.
2015 CSDA Grantees
Timothy F. Burns, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
Project: "Targeting the TWIST1- E2A Pathway in Oncogene Driven Lung Cancer"
Ying Chen, M.D.
Washington University in St. Louis
Project: "Risk Alleles and Podocyte Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Focal
Segmental Glomerulosclerosis"
Oscar R. Colegio, M.D., Ph.D.
Yale University
Project: "Defining Intercellular Metabolic Networks in Human Cutaneous Squamous
Cell Carcinoma"
Mohit Jain, M.D.
University of California, San Diego
Project: "Mapping the Environmental Landscape of Human Cardiovascular Disease"
Rakesh Karmacharya, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Project: "Neurobiological Basis of Clozapine Response in Schizophrenia Patients"
Jared W. Magnani, M.D.
Boston University School of Medicine
Project: "Atrial Fibrillation Health Literacy Information Technology Trial"
Rebecca A. Marsh, M.D.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Project: "CD38 Bright CD8+ Effector Memory T-cells Herald Acute Graft Versus
Host Disease"
John Z. Metcalfe, M.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Project: "Enhanced Therapeutic Monitoring of Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis"
Jennifer L. Nayak, M.D.
University of Rochester
Project: "Understanding How the Initial Encounter with Influenza Virus Poises Children for Protective Immunity"
Max R. O'Donnell, M.D., M.P.H.
Columbia University
Project: "Advanced Phenotypic and Genotypic Methods to Predict TB Treatment Response and Measure Emergent TB Drug-Resistance"
Meyeon Park, M.D.
University of California, San Francisco
Project: "Improving Cardiovascular Risk Stratification in Kidney Transplant Recipients"
Manish P. Ponda, M.D.
Rockefeller University
Project: "Understanding the Mechanisms behind the Disparate Actions of Endogenous Vitamin D versus Vitamin D Supplements on the Lipid Metabolism: A Rational Step Towards Optimizing Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency"
David T. Pride, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego
Project: "Human Viral Communities as Vehicles for the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance in
the Community"
Andrew D. Rhim, M.D.
University of Michigan
Project: "Cancer-Specific RNA Editing as a Novel Mechanism for Chemoresistance in Pancreatic Cancer"
Miriam A. Shelef, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Project: "Genetic Variants, Immune Dysregulation and Rheumatoid Arthritis"
William C. Stacey, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Project: "Big Data in the Brain: Implementing and Characterizing a Novel Biomarker
of Epilepsy"
Anand Vaidya, M.D., M.MSc.
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Project: "Adrenal and Parathyroid Hormone Interactions in Human Health"
Michael Zeineh, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine
Project: "The Role of Iron and Inflammation In Alzheimer's Disease: From Ex Vivo to in Vivo"