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