Pilot Grant Recipients - Round #146 Georgia CTSA/REM Program (1/2026)

3 awards funded

• AI-Guided Profiling of Migratory Cancer Stem Cell Communication in Head and Neck Cancer ($37,500)
  • PI: Yang Liu, PhD, Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, School of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Georgia
  • Co-PI: Yong Teng, PhD, Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University

• Predicting Personalized Extracellular Vesicle (EV) Responses for Directed Myeloid-targeted Immunotherapy ($25,000)
  • PI: Melissa Kemp, PhD, Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Co-PI: Rabindra Tirouvanziam, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory School of Medicine

• Use of Alzheimer’s Disease organoids to assess mesenchymal stromal cells derived extracellular vesicles mechanism of action ($37,500)
  • PI: Steven Stice, PhD, Professor, Regenerative Bioscience Center, University of Georgia
  • PI: Zhexing Wen, PhD, Associate Professor, Emory University School of Medicine