Pilot Grant Recipients - Round #112 Georgia CTSA (7/2021)

5 awards funded
  • Multifunctional Hemocompatible Polymers for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Utilized In Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients ($30,000)
    • PI: Elizabeth Brisbois, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Chemical, Materials, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Georgia
    • Co-investigator: Hitesh Handa, Ph.D. Associate Professor, University of Georgia, College of Engineering
    • Consultant: Chad Schmiedt, DVM, Professor and Alison Bradbury Chair of Feline Health, University of Georgia, College of Veterinary Medicine
  • Prevalence Of Vitamin D Deficiency In Cord Blood From The National Children’s Study: Impact Of Race/Ethnicity, Preterm Birth And The Association With Biochemical Markers Of Rickets ($40,000)
    • PI: Sina Gallo, PhD, Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences, College of Family and Consumer Services, University of Georgia
    • Co-PI: Dr. Janani Rajbhandari-Thapa, PhD, MPA, Assistant Professor in Public Health Policy and Management, University of Georgia
    • Co-investigator: Sheree Boulet, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor in Gynecology & Obstetrics, Emory University
  • Association of Protein/Molecular Biomarkers of Metabolic Dysfunction with Negative Symptoms and Motivation Circuitry as a Function of Inflammation in Patients with Schizophrenia ($40,000)
    • PI: David Goldsmith, MD, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Primary Mentor: Andrew H. Miller, MD, William P. Timmie Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
  • Kidney Transplant Renal Function Survival Prediction: Data wrangling, Feature Engineering, and the Evaluation of Statistical and Machine learning Prediction Models ($43,333)
    • PI: Wairimu Magua, PhD, MS, Academic Research Scientist, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Primary Mentor: Christian P. Larsen, PhD, MD, Professor of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Co-Mentor: Kirk Easley, MS, MApStat, Senior Associate, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
    • Co-Mentor: Joseph B. Rickert, MS, RStudio, Boston, MA, R Consortium, San Francisco, CA
  • Tackling An Old Problem With Novel Approaches in Children With Transplant Associated Thrombotic Microangiopathy (Ta-Tma)- A Pilot Proteomic Biomarker Discovery And Microfluidic Microvascular Model ($40,000)
    • PI: Michelle Schoettler, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Co-investigator: Dr. Wilbur Lam, Associate Professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Associate Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
    • Co-investigator: Kirsten Williams, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Co-investigator: Pritha Bagchi, PhD, Associate Scientist, Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine