TRAINEE PILOT AWARDS Two new trainee awardees were selected for the trainee pilot program in the amount of $10K over a one-year period. The purpose of the program is to support postdoctoral/clinical fellows or PhD/MD-PhD students in pursuing an independently funded research project that is separate from their ongoing projects under their current Principal Investigator/mentor. Successful applications were required to a) demonstrate that they can achieve independence and will generate preliminary data that could lead to career development or other grants and b) be relevant to children’s health.
Investigator: Keerthi Thirtamara Rajamani, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychiatry, Seaver Center for Autism Research and Treatment Project Title: Oxytocin Modulation of the Supramammillary Nucleus, a Social Novelty Associated Brain Region and Its Role in Autism Spectrum Disorder Primary Mentor: Hala Harony-Nicolas, PhD, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Seaver Center for Autism Research and Treatment, Mindich Child Health and Development Institute Secondary Mentor: Hirofumi Morishita, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Friedman Brain Institute, Mindich Child Health and Development Institute Keerthi Thirtamara Rajamani, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychiatry
Investigator: Carol L. Shen, MD, Clinical Fellow, Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension Primary Mentor: Dusan Bogunovic, PhD, Professor of Microbiology, Oncological Sciences, Pediatrics, Mindich Child Health and Development Institute Secondary Mentors: Jeffrey Saland, MD, MSCR, Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension, Mindich Child Health and Development Institute
Carol L. Shen, MD Clinical Fellow, Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension
The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute
Project Title: Aberrant JAK/STAT Signaling in Nephrotic Syndrome
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