Pilot Grant Recipients - Round #94 SOM I3 COVID-Catalyst (6/2020)


6 awards funded, $250,000 total
  • Evaluation of genomic evidences and network biology based repurposed therapies for COVID-19
    • Manoj K. Bhasin, PhD, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
    • Mehul Suthar, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
  • Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Decay as risk factor for severe SARS-CoV2 infection in older adults
    • Luisa Cervantes Barragan, Assistant Professor, Microbiology Pediatrics
    • Mehul Suthar, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
  • Accelerated discovery of SARS-CoV-2 viral entry inhibitors
    • Haian Fu, Professor, Pharmacology and Chemical Biology
    • Stefan Sarafianos, PhD, Professor, Pediatrics
    • Dennis Liotta, PhD, Professor, Chemistry
  • ResonanceDx Renin POC Test
    • Carlos Moreno, PhD, Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
    • John Roback, MD, PhD, Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
    • Sean Stowell, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  • Creation of a Novel, Population-based Cohort to Advance COVID-19 Research
    • Justin Schrager, MD, Emergency Medicine
    • Rachel Patzer, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Surgery
    • Alex Isakov, MD, MPH, Professor, Emergency Medicine
    • Aneesh Mehta, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease)
    • Lance Waller, PhD, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Rollins School of Public Health
    • David Wright, MD, Professor and Chair, Emergency Medicine
    • Anna Yaffee, MD, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
  • Thrombin Generation in Patients with Pneumonia Caused by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Infection (COVID-19)
    • Roman Sniecinski, MD, Professor, Anesthesiology
    • Craig Jabaley, MD, Assistant Professor Division Chief, Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology