Four Department of Medicine faculty were recently awarded Enhanced Academics in a Basic Laboratory Environment (ENABLE) program research grants from the PDC.
Eleven investigators from six clinical departments received grants to expand their involvement in basic science research. An additional 23 PDC members, including eight from the Department of Medicine, were awarded a second year of funding to continue their research.
The Enhanced Academics in a Basic Laboratory Environment (ENABLE) program provides up to two years of salary support to PDC members to dedicate a portion of their effort working closely with a primary research team.
2016 ENABLE Research Grant Recipients from the Department of Medicine
Hakim Ali, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine): Profiling complement mediators of donor-specific antibody related tissue injury to diagnose and predict antibody-mediated rejection in lung transplant recipients
Jeffrey Clarke, MD, medical instructor (Medical Oncology): Institutional collaboration to develop novel therapeutic strategies targeting TGFb in human malignancies
Gretchen Kimmick, MD, associate professor of medicine (Medical Oncology): Harnessing the power of light to see and treat breast cancer
Niharika Mettu, MD, PhD, medical instructor (Medical Oncology): Test the hypothesis that the intratumoral delivery of oncolytic poliovirus immunotherapy will be a safe and feasible approach that may improve the clinical outcomes for patients with pancreatic cancer
2015 ENABLE recipients from Medicine receiving second year funding
Tristram Bahnson, MD, professor of medicine (Cardiology): Pilot for Large Multi-center Outcomes Trials of Potentially Transformative Technology for Guiding Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias
Megan Clowse, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine (Rheumatology and Immunology): The Investigation of Issues Surrounding Rheumatologic Disease During Pregnancy
Kristen Dicks, MD, medical instructor (Infectious Diseases): Understanding the Serofast State, Improved Treatment Algorithms for Patients with Syphilis, Improved Patient Outcomes and Satisfaction, and Potentially Novel Diagnostic Testing for Syphilis
Yuh-Chin T. Huang, MD, professor of medicine (Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine): Using 129Xe MRI to Phenotype Early Asthma
David Rizzieri, MD, professor of medicine (Hematological Malignancies and Cellular Therapy): Improved Immunotherapy Through NK Cell Activation
Ankoor Shah, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Rheumatology and Immunology): Lymphocyte Profile Predictors of Pulmonary Disease in Systemic Sclerosis
John Strickler, MD, assistant professor of medicine (Medical Oncology): Collaboration to Test First-in-human Immuno-oncology Therapeutic Combinations
Thomas Weber, MD, associate professor of medicine (Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition): Use of Clinical, Biochemical and Cellular Profiling to Characterize Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism