CCTS Announces 7 New Career Development Grant Trainees

The CCTS is proud to announce 7 new Career Development Grant Trainees for the KL2 Mentored Career Grant, the Davis Bremer Path to K Scholars Program and the TL1 Career Development Program. The CCTS received 37 applications from biomedical researchers across the Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Engineering, Veterinary Medicine and Medicine.

The applicants included graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty from various areas of study. From this diverse and talented group, the CCTS Executive Committee has appointed the following researchers to our various training programs. They will begin their training programs over the summer.

KL2 Mentored Career Development Grant Scholars

1. Aubrey Moe, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, College of Medicine

Project Title: Brain-Behavior Mechanisms of Social Cognition in First-Episode Schizophrenia

Lead Mentor: K. Luan Phan

2. Lalit Sehgal, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology, College of Medicine

Project Title: Targeting pro-survival signaling pathway in Relapse/refractory Mantle Cell Lymphoma

Lead Mentor: Robert Baiocchi

 

Davis Bremer Path to K Scholars

3. Gregory Behbehani, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology, College of Medicine

Project Title: Mass Cytometric Analysis of Minimal Residual Disease Response During Acute Myeloid Leukemia Therapy

Lead Mentor: John Byrd

4. Kara Rood, MD

Assistant Professor-Clinical, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine

Project Title: Role of Aspirin and Aspirin-Triggered Lipoxins for Preeclampsia Prevention in Obese and Nonobese Pregnant Women.

Lead Mentor: Douglas Kniss

 

New TL1 Career Development Grant Trainees

5. Courtney Campbell, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral trainee, College of Medicine

Research Project: NMDA Receptor Antagonism in Human Heart Failure and Arrhthymia

Lead Mentor: Paul Janssen

6. Kimberley Scott

PhD candidate, Health Rehablitation Science, College of Medicine

Research Project: Comprehensive Measurement of Intervention Fidelity within Pediatric Neurorehabilitation

Lead Mentor: Jill Heathcock

7. Janek Walker

PhD candidate, Biomedical Science Graduate Program, College of Medicine

Research Project: Targeting Aberrations in Nuclear Export as a Driving Oncogenic Factor in Aggressive B cell Leukemia and Lymphoma

Lead Mentor: Rosa Lapalombella