Six Department of Medicine (DOM) faculty and research staff recently received funding through the Research Pilot Program sponsored by the department’s Office of Research Services.

The program’s aim is to fund innovative basic, translational, clinical and/or health services research that aims to generate data, publications and/or research collaborations that will be used to support external grant applications by DOM faculty and research staff members.

Trainee Pilot Awards provide up to $10,000 for one year and support development of a solid research foundation, toward a career development award. This year’s recipient is: 

• Ryan Marshall, PhD, MSc, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism—Eating for Longevity: How Extracellular Vesicles Deliver Messages of Metabolic Health

Critical Experiment Pilot Awards provide up to $10,000 for one year to support the generation of necessary preliminary data for a manuscript or grant submission. This year’s recipients are:

• Mihaela Teodorescu, MD, MS, Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine—Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Water Mix as a Novel Method for Removal of Fluticasone Propionate Oral Residua
• Sara Westergaard, MD, MPH, Hospital Medicine—Validation of Fragmentation Measures in Hospital Medicine

Career Development Supplemental Pilot Award provides up to $30,000 to support new investigators with a multi-year, extramurally funded career development award. This year’s recipient is:

• Farah Acher Kaiksow, MD, MPP, Hospital Medicine—Hospital delirium in the rapidly aging incarcerated population

General Research Pilot Awards provide up to $50,000 for one year to support the collection of pilot data for an upcoming grant submission or a project that represents a new research direction that is currently unfunded for an investigator. This year’s recipients are:

• Barbara Bendlin, PhD, MA, Geriatrics and Gerontology—Microbial Mediators of Alzheimer's Risk: Parental AD History and Cohabitation
• David Kosoff, MD, Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care—Identification of a transcriptomic signature in peripheral monocytes that predicts treatment response to Pluvicto in men with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer

Congratulations to all!

Banner: Dr. David Kosoff, one of this year's General Research Pilot Award recipients, in his lab. Credit: Clint Thayer/Department of Medicine.