Pilot Grant Recipients - Round #136 SOM I3/Atlanta VA Research (8/2023)

6 awards funded, $150,000 total

• Testing convergent biology across schizophrenia risk variants in forebrain cortical organoids
  • Gary Bassell (Cell Biology) and Erica Duncan (Atlanta VA Medical Center)
• Data-Driven Individual-Specific ‘Gait Signatures’ for diagnosis and rehabilitation of mobility deficits in older adults with cognitive impairments
  • Madeleine Hackney (Atlanta VA Medical Center), Trisha Kesar (Rehabilitation Medicine) and Lena Ting (BME)
• Seroepidemiology of emerging vector-borne diseases
  • Anne Piantadosi (Pathology and Laboratory Sciences) and Lauren Epstein (Atlanta VA Medical Center)
• Investigating the Novel Role of Pendrin in the Regulation of Renal BK Channel
  • Susan Wall (Medicine) and Hui Cai (Atlanta VA Medical Center)
• Evaluation of high frequency multi-directional transverse oscillation ultrasound for assessment of spinal cord perfusion after spinal cord injury using a clinically relevant pig model
  • Nicholas Au Yong (Neurosurgery) and Candace Floyd (Atlanta VA Medical Center)
• AusculBand Pilot Study: Assessing the utility of a low cost, patient facing digital stethoscope for telemedicine use
  • Lorenzo Di Francesco (Medicine), Arash Harzand (Atlanta VA Medical Center) and Matthew Brown (Medicine)