Pilot Grant Recipients - Round #140 Georgia CTSA BERD (8/2024)

8 awards funded

  • Estimating Average Treatment Effect for Multiple Treatment Comparisons through Double-Robust Generalized Propensity Score Matching ($19,920)
    • PI: Yuan Liu, PhD, Research Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Biostatistics Shared Resource at Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University
  • Characterizing abnormal brain morphology in patients with craniosynostosis using hierarchical generalized additive models ($20,000)
    • PI: Joshua Lukemire, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
    • Co-I, Antonio Porras Perez, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health
  • Statistical Approaches for Modeling Adolescent Brain Trajectories and the Impacts of Stimulants in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder ($19,926)
    • PI: Benjamin Risk, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
    • Co-PI: David Benkeser, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
    • Co-I: Benjamin Yerys, PhD, Psychologist, Scientist at the Center for Autism Research (CAR) at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
  • Machine Learning Framework for Deciphering Tissue Microenvironment from Multi-view, Multi-section, and Multi-sample Spatial Genomics data ($10,000)
    • PI: Jian Hu, PhD in Biostatistics, Assistant Professor of Human Genetics, Center for Computational and Quantitative Genetics, Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine
  • Characterizing Utilization of Regionalized Systems of Maternal Care: New Multi-Level Datasets and Modeling Approaches ($16,611)
    • PI: Lauren N. Steimle, PhD, Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Early Career Professor & Assistant Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Mapping the genetic control of gene expression with single-cell omics data ($20,000)
    • PI: Chang Su, PhD, Assistant Professor, Emory University
    • Co-I: Emma Jingfei Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor, Emory University
  • Characterizing gait in Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor disorder using functional data models ($20,000)
    • PI: Julia Wrobel, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
    • Co-I: J. Lucas McKay, PhD, MSCR, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Co-I: Christine Doss Esper, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine
  • AI-Enhanced Early Triage for Occlusion Myocardial Infarction Using Prehospital Electrocardiogram ($20,000)
    • PI: Ran Xiao, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor, Center for Data Science, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Associated Faculty, Department of Computer Science, School of Arts and Sciences, Emory University
    • Co-I: Alex Fedorov, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Data Science, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
    • Co-I: Lekshmi Kumar, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine