Pilot Award Recipients

Congratulations to all of our Department of Medicine Education, Clinical and Research Pilot Grant recipients!

2024 Recipients

Jason Wu, PhD. Division of Nephrology. “Role of the ROCK2-Th17 Axis in Renal Fibrosis.”

Rickinder Grewal, MD. Division of Nephrology. “Impact of TMEM27 Expression on the Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Metabolome”.

Maria McGreevy, MD. Division of Hematology/Oncology. “Feasibility of a web-based virtual chatbot platform in improving access to cancer genetic testing among individuals living in rural areas.”

Rachel Rodenbach, MD. Division of Hematology/Oncology. “Development of digital stories to promote shared decision making for patients with myeloid cancers considering allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation.”

Previous Recipients

2023

• Erica Miller, MD
• Sullafa Kadura, MD, MBA
• Brenda Tesini, MD

2022

• Carlos Díaz-Balzac, MD, PhD
• Margaret Connolly, MD
• Janice Cheong, MD
• Fahad Saeed, MB, BS

2021

• Olga Astapova, MD, PhD
• Francis Coyne, MD and Ashley Jenkins,MD
• Ajay Dakal, MBBS
• Eric Huselton, MD
• Jennifer Readlynn, MD

2020

• Angela Branche, MD
• Thomas Fountaine, MD
• Brian McGarry, PhD
• Jennifer Pascoe, MD and Amy Blatt, MD
• Rachael Roswell-Turner, MD, PhD

2019

• Kaval Chhabra, MPharm, PhD
• Cynthia Monaco, MD, PhD
• David Nagel, MD, PhD
• William Novak, MD and Valerie Lang, MD, MHPE
• Jessica Stern, MD

2018

• Douglas Anderson, PhD
• Daniel Croft, MD, MPH
• David Levy, MD
• Susanne Miedlich, MD
• Melissa Mroz, MD
• Tanya Sahay, MD
• Maria Slack, MD
• Lisa Vargish, MD
• Himabindu Vidula, MD, MS

2017

• Scott Cameron, PhD, MD
• Richard Dunne, MD
• Shannon Hilchey, PhD

2016

• Aritro Sen, PhD and Mike Sellix, PhD
• R. Matthew Kottmann, MD
• Allison Magnuson, DO
• Ananta Paine, PhD