Pilot Grant Recipients - Round #119 Georgia CTSA (7/2022)

10 awards funded

  • Piloting Augmented Reality Cues for Enhancing Driving Safety in Glaucoma ($50,000)
    • PI: Deepta Ghate, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Co-Investigator: Srinivas Peeta, PhD, Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Identifying Gaps in Data regarding Suicide by Registered Nurses in Georgia ($40,000)
    • PI: Ursula Kelly, PhD, MSN, Associate Professor, Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
    • Co-Investigator: Rana Balakly, MPH, Chief Epidemiologist, Georgia Department of Public Health Chronic Disease, Health Behaviors and Injury Epidemiology Section; Epidemiology Division
  • DNA Methylation Differences May Predict IVF success ($39,940)
    • PI: Anna Knight, PhD, Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Co-Investigator: Alicia K. Smith, PhD, Vice Chair for Research, Diana & Bryan Blair Research Professor, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Co-Investigator: Jessica B. Spencer, MD, Professor, Reproductive Endocrinology Division Director, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine
  • Novel Human Olfactory Models to Study SARS-CoV-2-mediated Anosmia and Sequelae ($50,000)
    • Co-PI: Julia LeCher, Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Co-PI: Michael Koval, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University
    • Co-Investigator: Joshua Levy, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Co-Investigator: Shuichi Takayama, PhD, Professor, GRA Eminent Scholar, Price Gilbert, Jr. Chair in Regenerative Engineering and Medicine, Georgia Tech
  • Quantifying exposure to acute stressors, negative emotions, dysfunctional eating behaviors and T2D risk: a pilot ecological momentary assessment study among adults in Puerto Rico ($40,000)
    • PI: Andrea Lopez-Copero, PhD, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology Department, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
    • Co-Investigator: Tené Lewis, PhD, Associate Professor, Epidemiology Department, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
  • Improving Equity in Access to Kidney Transplantation through a Web-based Transplant Referral EXchange (TREX) Platform ($40,000)
    • PI: Rachel Patzer, PhD, MPH, Professor, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Co-Investigator: Megan A. Urbanski, PhD, MSW, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Emory School of Medicine
  • Positive Youth Development in the Metaverse - Development of a Virtual Reality Afterschool Program for Middle Childhood Youth ($40,000)
    • PI: Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, PhD, Associate Professor, Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Georgia
    • Co-Investigator: Kyle Johnsen, PhD, Professor, College of Engineering, University of Georgia
    • Co-Investigator: Steven Kogan, PhD, Professor, College of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Georgia
    • Co-Investigator: Allan Tate, PhD, Assistant Professor, College of Public Health, University of Georgia
    • Co-Investigator: Jessica Knight, PhD, Assistant Professor, College of Public Health, University of Georgia
  • A Community Nutrition Initiative to Promote Healthy Eating Behavior Changes and Food Security ($49,859.03)
    • PI: Sarah T. Henes, PhD, RDN, LD, Assistant Professor, UGA EFNEP State Coordinator/Extension Nutrition Specialist, University of Georgia
    • Co-Investigator: Latrice Rollins, PhD, MSW, Assistant Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine
  • The use of sugammadex as rescue therapy following inadequate reversal with neostigmine. ($39,842.24)
    • PI: Rebecca Y S Wong, MBBS, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Emory School of Medicine
  • Building a Stroke Patient Research Network in Athens and Northeast Georgia ($49,970.30)
    • PI: Jing Xu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology, University of Georgia
    • Co-PI: Steven L. Wolf, PhD, PT, FAPTA, FAHA, FASNR, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Division of Physical Therapy, Professor, Department of Medicine, Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine, Professor of Health and Elder Care. Nell Hodgson School of Nursing at Emory University, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Visual and Neurocognitive Rehabilitation, Atlanta VA Health Care System
    • Co-Investigator: Deborah Barany, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology, University of Georgia
    • Co-Investigator: Samir Belagaje, MD, Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory University, Director of Stroke Rehabilitation for the Marcus Stroke & Neuroscience Center at Grady Memorial Hospital
    • Co-Investigator: Michael Borich, DPT, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Division of Physical Therapy, Emory University School of Medicine, Associate Director of Research, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Associate Director, Emory Neural Engineering Center