Awarded: Jul 01, 2014
$648,000 over one year
In 2014, 10 teams of DDCF-funded investigators and medical students with an interest in becoming future clinician investigators received $64,800 each for one-year research projects.
2014 Clinical Research Mentorship Grantees
Sunil Ahuja, M.D., Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award (2008)
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Mentee: Elizabeth Levine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Project: Uncovering Determinants of House Dust Mite Pathogenesis by Use of an Allergen Challenge Chamber, Conditionally Reprogrammed Cells and Cas9
Nuclease Technology
Keith A. Choate, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Scientist Development Award (2011)
Yale University
Mentee: Young Lim, Yale University
Project: Genetics and Pathobiology of Cutaneous-Skeletal Hypophosphatemic Syndrome and Erythrokeratodermia Variabilis
Charis Eng, M.D., Ph.D., Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award (2002)
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Mentee: Huan Zhang, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Project: Metagenomic Profiling of Oral Polymicrobial Flora in Mobile Tongue Squamous
Cell Carcinoma
Alan D’Andrea, M.D., Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award (2000)
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Mentee: Jonathan Pike, Indiana University
Project: Elucidation of DNA Repair Pathway Changes Responsible for Controlling Tumor Development, Progression, and Treatment Response in Anal
Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Thomas Darling, M.D., Clinical Scientist Development Award (2001)
Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
Mentee: Neera Nathan, George Washington University
Project: Defining Phenotypes of Mosaic mTORopathies
Michael DeBaun, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Scientist Development Award (1999)
Vanderbilt University
Mentee: Leah Vance, Vanderbilt University
Project: Inhaled Corticosteroid Use to Prevent Acute Chest Syndrome Recurrence in Children between 1 and 4 with Sickle Cell Disease: A Feasibility Trial
Rasheed Gbadegesin, M.D., Clinical Scientist Development Award (2009)
Duke University
Mentee: Shan Elahi, Duke University
Project: Identification of New Non-Invasive Diagnostic Tools for Vesicoureteric Reflux (VUR)
Deborah Hung, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Scientist Development Award (2008)
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mentee: David Miranda, Harvard Medical School
Project: A Rapid Diagnostic Tool for Infectious Diseases and Antibiotic Resistance
Adam Ratner, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Scientist Development Award (2009)
Columbia University
Mentee: Kathleen Breeding, Columbia University
Project: The Vaginal Microbiota: A New Target for Prevention of Group B Streptococcus
Colonization and Disease
Agata Smogorzewska, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Scientist Development Award (2011)
Rockefeller University
Mentee: Elizabeth Looke-Stewart, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Project: Identification and Functional Analysis of Genomic Alterations in Anogenital and Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas from Fanconi Anemia Patients