Pilot Grant Recipients - Round #124 SOM I3 Rapid Synergy (11/2022)
3 awards funded, $300,000 total
- Humoral and Cellular Immunity in Monkeypox Infected Individuals With and Without HIV
- Rama Amara (microbiology and immunology) and Colleen Kelley (medicine)
- High Throughput Screening Studies for Discovery of Monkeypox Virus Inhibitors
- Stefan Sarafinos (pediatrics), Haian Fu (pharmacology and chemical biology), Philip Tedbury (pediatrics), and Yuhong Du (pharmacology)
- Determining Jail-Wide Viral Loads of Mpox and Presence of Other Pathogens via Wastewater Surveillance: Capabilities of Laboratory Science and Opinions of Former Residents
- Anne Spaulding (epidemiology, RSPH), Marlene Wolfe (environmental health, RSPH), and Rasheeta Chandler (SON)