Awarded Grants
The CCTS has provided pilot research funding to investigators and research education grants to trainees and scholars.
| Collaborative/Partnership Pilot Awards | Novel/Innovative Methodologies Pilot Awards | ||
| Community Engagement Pilot Awards | Other Pilot Awards | ||
| Davis/Bremer Pilot Awards |
Collaborative/Partnership Pilot Awards
Trudy Galliard, PhD, RN, CDE
Ethnic & Gender Disparities of Disease Drive Scientist
Award Date: 10/20/2008
Bhuvaneswari Ramaswamy, MD, MRCP
Clinical Researcher to Seek Innovative Treatments
Award Date: 10/20/2008
Jennifer McCallister, MD
Asthma Research Leads Way to Personalized Care
Award Date: 10/20/2008
Jianrong Li, DVM, PhD
Live Vaccine Candidates for Human Metapneumovirus
Award Date: 05/01/2009
Melvin Pascall, PhD
Ware Washing in Removal of Food-borne Viruses
Award Date: 05/01/2009
Jiyoung Lee, PhD
Novel Rapid Detection of P. Aeruginosa Samples
Award Date: 04/14/2009
Dimitris Tatakis, DDS, PhD
Surgical Delay May Improve Periodontal Surgery Outcomes
Award Date: 04/14/2009
Susan Mallery, DDS, PhD
Preventive Topical Gel for Premalignant Oral Lesions
Award Date: 04/14/2009
Ulysses Magalang, MD
Effects of Mandibular Devices on Insulin Sensitivity
Award Date: 04/14/2009
Alison Lane, PhD, OTR/L
Clinical and neurophysiologic identification of sensory dysfunction in children with autism
Award Date: 12/01/2010
Angela Brown, PhD
Pediatric Visual Contrast Sensitivity Test
Award Date: 12/01/2010
Renukaradhya Gourapura, DVM, MS, PhD, Jordi Torelles, MS, PhD and Chang-Won Lee, DVM, PhD
Evaluation of the efficacy of NKT cell specific adjuvant mediated mucosal influenza vaccine to generate broadly cross-protective candidate vaccine in a pig model
Award Date: 12/01/2010
Yvonne Efebera, MD
Assessment of MicroRNA-155 Expression in acute Graft-versus-Host Disease (aGVHD)
Award Date: 04/25/2011
Anne Kloos, PT, PhD, NCS
Examining the Effects of Dance Dance Revolution on Mobility, Brain Plasticity and Cognition in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis
Award Date: 12/01/2011
Samantha King, PhD and Renukaradhya Gourapura, DVM, MS, PhD
Evaluation of increased influenza titers during bacterial co-infection
Award Date: 12/01/2011
Warren Lo, MD
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in children with strokes
Award Date: 12/01/2011
Bharat Bhushan, PhD and Scott Schricker, PhD
Bioinspired Nanofibers for Novel Maxillofacial Prosthetic Adhesives
Award Date: 12/01/2011
Sudha Agarwal, PhD
BRF1-Driven Bone augmentation
Award Date: 12/01/2011
Do-Gyoon Kim, PhD
Bone mineralization based diagnosis of oral complications
Award Date: 12/01/2011
Seuli Brill, MD
Development of a novel advance care planning facilitation tool using the patient health record: A pilot study
Award Date: 12/01/2011
Sookyung Hyun, DNSc, RN
Applying Artificial Intelligence to ICU Pressure Ulcer Prediction and Prevention
Award Date: 12/01/2011
Donald Mutti, OD, PhD
Harnessing time outdoors: environmental correlates of plasma vitamin D
Award Date: 12/01/2011
Robert Lee, PhD and Yasuro Sugimoto, PhD
Development of an RNAi therapy for triple negative breast cancer (TNBC)
Award Date: 12/01/2011
Sarah Moore, DVM, DACVIM
The role of hsp70,IL-1B and TNF-a responses in recovery after canine spinal cord injury: a pilot investigation
Award Date: 12/01/2011
Ouliana Ziouzenkova, PhD
Encapsulated engineered cells for obesity treatment
Award Date: 12/15/2011
Savita Khanna, PhD
Ischemia, glutamate and neuroprotection
Award Date: 8/17/2012
Cameron Rink, PhD
Significance of TIMP1 in cerebrovascular collateral circulation during acute ischemic stroke
Award Date: 8/17/2012
Lauren O. Bakaletz, PhD; John D. Clements, PhD
Development of a transcutaneous immunization patch and assessment of the efficacy afforded against experimental otitis media due to nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae
Award Date: 8/17/2012
Jose J. Otero, MD, PhD; Jessica Winter, PhD
Induced pluripotent stem cell modeling of respiratory neuron development
Award Date: 8/17/2012
Christopher K. Breuer, MD; Heather Powell, PhD
Development of a Closed, Disposable System for Assembling Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts (Part 2: Evaluation of the Bioequivalence of Cell Isolation Techniques)
Award Date: 8/17/2012
Maryam B. Lustberg, MD, MPH; A. Courtney DeVries, PhD
Prevention of chemotherapy-induced cognitive deficits by docosahexaenoic acid
Award Date: 8/17/2012
Yael Vodovotz, PhD
Bioavailability and distribution of black raspberry phytochemicals from novel OSU functional foods designed for cancer prevention clinical trials
Award Date: 8/17/2012
Chad Rappleye, PhD
Lead Candidate Antifungal Drug Development
Award Date: 8/17/2012
Community Engagement Pilot Awards
Mary A. Fristad, PhD, ABPP
Effectiveness of Therapy for Children with Mood Disorders
Award Date: 03/01/2009
Amy Ferketich, PhD
Conducting Smoking Cessation Intervention in Appalachia
Award Date: 03/01/2009
Ihuoma Eneli, MD, MS
Studying Childhood Obesity and Maternal-Child Feeding
Award Date: 03/01/2009
William Malarkey, MD and Prabu David, PhD
Effects of Meditative Prayer and Mindfulness on Health
Award Date: 03/01/2009
Timothy Buckley, PhD
Bridging Barriers for Community Access and Assistance
Award Date: 03/01/2009
Barbara Polivka, MSN, PhD, Mac Crawford, PhD and Rosemary Chaudry, PhD, MHA, MPH
Building Environmental Public Health Literacy With An Urban Community: A Pilot Study
Award Date: 01/01/2010
Robyn Wilson, PhD
Building Environmental Public Health Literacy with an Urban Community: A Pilot Study
Award Date: 01/01/2010
Thelma Patrick, PhD, RN
Partnership With Community Properties (CPO) Impact Corporation To Identify Health Concerns Of Female CPO Residents Of Childbearing Age
Award Date: 01/01/2010
Kurt Stevenson, MD, MPH and Dwight Powell, MD
Utilization of molecular genotyping and social network analysis to identify outbreaks of community Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Award Date: 06/30/2010
Gayle Gordillo, MD
Comparison of diabetic foot ulcer limb salvage rates in patients receiving specialized wound care versus standard care at OSUMC
Award Date: 07/01/2010
Celia Wills, PhD, RN
Pilot-testing of a Support Intervention for Shared Decision-making about Depressive Symptoms in Diabetes Mellitus
Award Date: 07/01/2010
Laureen Smith, PhD, RN
Engaging Rural Appalachia in Clinical Research: A community-based participatory project in Pike County, Ohio
Award Date: 04/15/2011
Mira Katz, PhD
Leveraging Social Networks to Increase Cancer Screening in Appalachia
Award Date: 04/30/2011
Deborah Meyer, PhD, RN and Albert Lai, PhD
Chronic Disease Management in Rural Appalachian Elderly
Award Date: 04/03/2012
Lin Yang, PhD and Kun Huang, PhD
Integrated Morphological and Genome Analysis for Computer‐Aided Diagnosis and Computer Intervened Personalized Treatment for Lung Cancer
Award Date: 09/01/2012
Davis/Bremer Pilot Awards
Madhuri Sopirala, MD, PhD
Burden of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Community – Tackling the Double Edged Sword
Award Date: 08/01/2009
Rami Khayat, MD
Mechanism of Endothelial Dysfunction in OSA
Award Date: 08/01/2009
Shu-Hua Wang, MD, MPH & TM
Hospital transmission of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA):Characterization of epidemiologic, molecular, geographic, and phylogenetic features
Award Date: 08/01/2009
Steven Ing, MD, MSCE
Relationship of red blood cell n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid concentrations to fracture and bone mineral density in the Women’s Health
Award Date: 08/01/2009
Carl Schmidt, MD, MSCI
Integration of Multimodal Heat Sensitive Microbubbles with Therapeutic Thermal Ablation for Liver Malignancy
Award Date: 06/01/2010
Ergun Kocak, MD, MS
Gene Therapy of Plastic Surgical Flap Tissues in a Mouse Xenograft Model to Treat Human Colorectal Tumor Implants
Award Date: 06/01/2010
Matthew Old, MD
Novel Oncolytic Virus Therapy In Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Award Date: 06/01/2010
Stephen Cook, MD, FACC
Cardiovascular Stress Treadmill Imaging In The Young Adult With Tetralogy Of Fallot
Award Date: 06/01/2010
John Christoforidis, MD
The Effect of Intravitreal Anti-VEGF Agents on the Function of Cutaneous Wound Healing in a Rabbit Model
Award Date: 06/01/2011
Jon Wisler, MD
Microvesicles and MicroRNAs as Mediators of Sepsis
Award Date: 06/01/2011
Kathleen Dungan, MD
Effect of glycemic variability on autonomic tone in hospitalized patients with type 2 diabetes
Award Date: 06/01/2011
Ravi Tripathi, MD
Local anesthetics infiltration for pain management after cardiac surgery: novel roles beyond blocking nerves
Award Date: 06/01/2011
Trent Tipple, MD
miR-17~92 Cluster Expression in Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
Award Date: 06/01/2011
Katherine Walsh, MD
Targeting DNA methylation in Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Award Date: 05/15/2012
Sujatha P Bhandary, MD
Human Sternotomy Wound Inflammation and Leukocyte derived Opioid peptides
Award Date: 05/15/2012
Ciaran J. Powers, MD, PhD
miR profiling for prediction of post-hemorrhagic vasospasm
Award Date: 05/15/2012
Novel/Innovative Methodologies Pilots
Arthur Burghes, PhD
Identification of Altered Transcripts in Motor Neurons and Motor Axons of SMA Mice
Award Date: 05/01/2010
Estelle Cormet-Boyaka, PhD
Deciphering the Effects of Cadmium on Airway Epithelial Cells
Award Date: 05/01/2010
Cameron Rink, PhD
Pial Collateral Recruitment and Remodeling in Acute Ischemic Stroke
Award Date: 05/01/2010
Gregg Hadley, PhD
Role of CD103 in Promoting Tubular Injury During Clinical Renal Allograft Rejection
Award Date: 05/01/2010
Savita Khanna, PhD
Mechanisms in brain injury and protection
Award Date: 05/01/2010
Heather Powell, PhD
Laser Capture Microdissection of Skin: Uncovering MicroRNA's Role in Aging and Biomechanics
Date: 05/01/2010
Jesse Kwiek, PhD
Using Laser Capture Microdissection to Query HIV-1 Geonomic Diversity in Discrete Regions of Formalin-Fixed Placental Biopsies
Award Date: 05/01/2010
Nicanor Moldovan, PhD
Profiling Circulating Cardiovascular Progenitor Cells
Award Date: 05/01/2010
Ouliana Ziouzenkova, PhD
Encapsulated Thermogenic Adipocytes for Obesity Treatment
Award Date: 05/01/2010
Qinghua Sun, MD, PhD
Air Pollution and Perivascular Fat-mediated Vascular Dysfunction
Award Date: 05/01/2010
Stephen Kolb, MD, PhD
AU-rich element Containing mRNA Levels in Motor Neurons from Transgenic HSPB1 Mice
Award Date: 05/01/2010
Thomas Schmittgen, PhD
MicroRNA Profiling in Microdissected Pancreatic Precursor Lesions
Award Date: 05/01/2010
Rene Anand, PhD, Stephanie Amici
Modulation of Nicotinic Receptors by Cytosolic Proteins
Award Date: 05/01/2010
Terry Elton, PhD
Cardiovascular Disease, miRNAs, and Aberrant AT1R Expression: Is there a common link?
Award Date: 05/01/2010
Ching-Shan Chou, PhD , Avner Friedman, PhD, Gayle Gordillo, MD, FACS, Heather Powell, PhD and Sabyasachi Biswas, PhD
Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Study Burn Propagation and Intervention
Award Date: 07/01/2010
Jeffrey Chalmers, PhD and Charles Shapiro, MD
Quantitative Multiparameter Fluorescent Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells
Award Date: 07/01/2010
Victor Jin, PhD and Michael Ostrowski, PhD
Computer-aided Tools for Identification of Tumor Microenvironment (TME) Biomarkers
Award Date: 07/01/2010
Raghu Machiraju, PhD and Kun Huang, PhD
PhenoLIMS – A Laboratory Information System (LIMS) for Gleaning Molecular and Morphological Phenotypes in Clinical Outcomes
Award Date: 07/01/2010
Other Pilot Awards
Lisa Christian, PhD
Adaptation of Stress Response During Pregnancy
Award Date: 04/01/2009
Gregory Lesinski, PhD
Evaluation of Novel Jak2-STAT3 Inhibitors in Melanoma
Award Date: 04/01/2009
Amy R. Darragh, PhD, OTR/L
Musculoskeletal Health and Disorders in Caregivers
Award Date: 04/01/2009
David Pitt, MD
Detecting Cortical Demyelination with Ultra-Highfield MRI
Award Date: 04/01/2009
Vish Subramaniam, PhD
New Method for Detection of Cancer
Award Date: 04/01/2009
James Belknap, DVM, PhD
Laser Capture Microdissection in Equine Laminitis
Award Date: 04/01/2009
Marilyn Lewis, PhD
Maternal-Fetal Bonding with Substance Abusing Mothers
Award Date: 04/01/2009
Douglas McCarty, PhD
Improving Islet Cell Transplants Through Gene Transfer
Award Date: 04/01/2009
Sean Lawler, PhD
Recapitulation of Glioma Invasion Using Nanofibers
Award Date: 04/01/2009
Christopher A. Adin, DVM, Diplomate
Award Date: 02/01/2009
Sarandeep Huja, DDS, PhD
Award Date: 05/01/2009
Avner Friedman, PhD
Modeling oxygen transport in surgical transfer
Award Date: 07/01/2009
Ching-Shih Chen, PhD
Targeting autophagy and AKT signaling with novel small moleculesfor the treatment of intracellular pathogens
Award Date: 10/01/2009
Jeremy Neal, PhD, MS, RNC, Douglas Kniss, PhD and Thelma Patrick, PhD, RN
Evaluation of maternal inflammatory markers as predictors of active labor onset among low-risk, nulliparous women: Role of cervical dilation in the diagnosis of true labor
Award Date: 10/01/2009
Julia Pinsonneault, PhD
Genetic Contributions to ADHD Subtypes with Markers of Drug Response in Autism
Award Date: 10/01/2009
Sanjay Rajagopalan, MD
Molecular Imaging of Inflammation
Award Date: 10/01/2009
Hamdy Elsayed-Awad, MD
Local wound environment in regulation of pain and wound healing in post-sternotomy cardiac surgery patients
Award Date: 12/01/2009
Ruchika Shaurya Prakash, PhD
Effects of mindfulness training on cognitive and brain plasticity of older adults
Award Date: 12/01/2009
Heather Powell, PhD
Mechano-Modulation of Hypertrophic Scar Development
Award Date: 12/01/2009
Savita Khanna, PhD
The Janus face of glutamate in brain injury: from neurotoxin to neuroprotectant
Award Date: 12/01/2009
Zhenguo Liu, MD, PhD
Targeting bone marrow stem cells by oxidized low-density lipoprotein prevents tumor growth and progression
Award Date: 12/01/2009
Sampath Parthasarathy, PhD, MBA, FAHA and Martha Belury, PhD, RD
Diabetic Hypertriglyceridemia: A novel mechanistic insight that would lead to new drug development and therapies
Award Date: 12/01/2009
Denis Guttridge, PhD, Federica Montanaro, PhD, Mark Bloomston, MD and Pete Muscarella, MD
Muscle Stem Cells as a New Therapeutic Target in Pancreatic Cancer Cachexia
Award Date: 12/01/2009
Robert Stephens Jr., PhD and Brian Kaspar, PhD
Viral-Mediated Spinal Glutamate Transporter Over-expression and Visceral Pain
Award Date: 12/01/2009
Karen Wruck, PhD
Discovery, Innovation and New Product Development: Training and Consultative Support Program for CCTS Pilot-Funded Investigators and K-Awardees
Award Date: 01/01/2010
Mahmood Khan, PhD
Establishment of a multi-investigator team for evaluation of preclinical cardiac stem cell therapy
Award Date: 08/01/2010
Ronald Xu, PhD
Minimally invasive surgery with multimodal imaging guidance
Award Date: 08/01/2010
Cameron Rink, PhD
Cerebrovascular collateral recruitment and remodeling in acute ischemic stroke
Award Date: 12/01/2010
Jodi McDaniel, PhD
Lipid mediators play important roles in inflammation regulation, but the lipid mediators that are prevalent in the microenvironment of chronic venous stasis ulcers have not been determined
Award Date: 12/01/2010
Konstantinos Boudoulas, MD
Stem Cell Therapy for Cardiac Regeneration
Award Date: 12/01/2010
Louise Rodino-Klapac, PhD
AAV5 Mediated Dysferlin Delivery as a Therapeutic Strategy for Dysferlinopathies
Award Date: 12/01/2010
Zongyang Sun, DDS, PhD
Bone regeneration: an autologous cell transplantation, tissue engineering and mechanical distraction approach
Award Date: 12/01/2010
Brad Rovin, MD
Biomarkers of kidney pathology
Award Date: 12/01/2011
Gunjan Agarwal, PhD and Richard Gumina, MD
DDR1: a novel player in thrombosis
Award Date: 12/01/2011
Jeff Kuret, PhD and Michael Tweedle, PhD
PET imaging agents for tauopathic neurodegenerative diseases
Award Date: 12/01/2011