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Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to announce the winners of the 2017 Discovery Fund for Synergy and Innovation awards. Innovation awards consist of up to $50,000 with an award term of one year and will support new, innovative single-investigator initiated projects that have not been previously funded or published. Synergy awards consist of up to $100,000 with an award term of one year and support new and novel collaborative research projects led by full-time, tenure track academic faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
This year's Innovation awardees:
- Mona Bahouth for "Pilot Study of a Novel, Low-Cost, Wearable Sensor to Measure Dehydration After Acute Stroke"
- Patrick Cahan for "Characterization of Novel Cell Populations in the Synovial Joint"
- Ahmet Hoke for "Strategies to Inhibit Neuroma Formation"
- Koko Ishizuka for "State Biomarkers Reflecting Drug Response in Bipolar Disorder: Single-Cell Protein Analysis in Olfactory Neurons Obtained by Soft Nasal Brush"
- Han Seok Ko for "Therapeutic Applications of Graphene Quantum Dots (GQDs) for Parkinson's Disease"
- Fan Pan for "Targeting the Activin Signaling Pathway in Combination with Immune Checkpoint Blockade As a Novel Strategy to Treat Melanoma"
- Joel Pomerantz for "A Functional Pilot Screen for Determinants of Cell-Type-Specific Oncogenesis"
- Rosanne Rouf for "Targeting Angiotensin Receptor Type 2 as a Treatment Strategy for Mitral Valve Prolapse"
- Sin Urban for "One by One: Decoding the Mechanism Underlying Catalysis Inside the Cell"
- Mark Wu for "Molecular Pathways Mediating Protein Hunger in Drosophila and Mice"
This year's Synergy awardees:
- Jay Baraban with Sam Das and Dan Berkowitz for "A Novel Strategy for Treating Vascular Stiffness"
- Yingli Fu with Peter Searson for "Imaging-Visible, Bioprinted 3D Niche for Targeted Human iPSC-Derived Beta Cell Delivery"
- Loyal Goff with Elana Fertig for "Systematic Characterization of Transcriptional Variation in Retinal Development at Single Cell Resolution"
- Eric Jackson with Stergios Papadakis and Carolyn Harris for "Preventing Ventricular Catheter Obstruction in Hydrocephalus"
- Emily Johnson with Archana Venkataraman for "Epileptic Seizure Localization via Bayesian Structure Learning"
- Ulrich Mueller with Kristina Nielsen for "Progenitor Cell Diversity and the Evolution of the Mammalian Neocortex"
- Alena Savonenko with Ralph Etienne-Cummings for "Development of New Generation Phenotyping: Transition from Classical Behavorial Testing to Big Data Science"
- Jungsan Sohn with Michael Chattergoon for "Establishing a Framework for Identifying Selective Inhibitors for Foreign dsDNA-Sensing Pathways"
- Shuying Sun with Bin Wu for "Single Molecule Dynamics of Expanded RNA Repeats and Repeat-Associated Non-AUG Translation in C9ORF72-related ALS/FTD"
Please join us in congratulating this year's awardees. For more information about the projects, please visit this page https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/research/resources/synergy/discovery-fund.html.
Congratulations,
Antony Rosen, M.B.Ch.B., B.Sc.
Co-Director of Johns Hopkins inHealth
Vice Dean for Research
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Paul B. Rothman, M.D.
Dean of the Medical Faculty
CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Daniel E. Ford, M.D., M.P.H.
Vice Dean for Clinical Investigation
Director, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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