CTSI / CURE Pilot Awardees
View all previous CURE:DDRCC Pilot and Feasibility Study awardees below.
2019 Awardees
![Jihane Benhammou](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Jihane%20Benhammou.jpg?h=52119415&itok=BmpxkYgY)
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![Jennifer Fulcher](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Jennifer%20Fulcher.jpg?h=08a2a2d5&itok=oYL2IOOy)
Project Title: "The novel human long non-coding RNA, OLMALINC, regulates lipid metabolism through differential regulation of the Sterol Response Binding Proteins and SCD"
Project Title: "Free fatty acid receptors-mediated regulation of YAP activity in obesity-promoted pancreatic cancer"
Project Title: "Investigating the Role of Gut Microbiome Maturation in Oral Polio Vaccine Response."
![Arpana Gupta](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Arpana%20Gupta.jpg?h=55862c10&itok=cj0DpxNt)
![Marc Liesa-Roig](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Marc%20Liesa-Roig.jpg?h=d72ff27f&itok=0kyZD58M)
![Slavica Tudzarova](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Slavica%20Tudzarova.jpg?h=8e059a00&itok=BtkWeWGc)
Project Title: "Sex differences in brain-microbiome-immune interactions in obesity"
Project Title: "Identification of a mitochondrial antioxidant system that fails in alcoholic liver disease (ALD)"
Project Title: "Pancreatic tumor promoting role of β-cell Warburg effect in type-2-diabetes"
2018 Awardees
![Arpana Gupta](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Arpana%20Gupta.jpg?h=55862c10&itok=cj0DpxNt)
![Slavica Tudzarova](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Slavica%20Tudzarova.jpg?h=8e059a00&itok=BtkWeWGc)
![Elizabeth Videlock](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Elizabeth%20Videlock_0.jpg?h=395632ea&itok=x5I6O9Q5)
Project Title: "Sex Differences in Microbiome-Related Alterations in Brain Signatures in Obesity"
Project Title: "Pancreatic tumor promoting role of β-cell Warburg effect in type-2-diabetes"
Project Title: "The role of colonic inflammation and gliosis in a mouse model of Parkinson’s Disease (PD)"
2017 Awardees
![Jill Hoffman](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Jill%20Hoffman.jpg?h=0667e139&itok=9Nxdnvx2)
![Elaine Hsiao](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Elaine%20Hsiao.jpg?h=d72ff27f&itok=6jkq9qXQ)
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Project Title: "The role of CRHR2 signaling in enteric glial cell function during colitis"
Project Title: "Dissecting Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms for Communication Across the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis"
Project Title: "Characterization and therapeutic targeting of ING3 chromatin pathway in pancreatic cancer"
![David Padua](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/David%20Padua.jpg?h=bc6c5b97&itok=8WtUtljR)
Project Title: "The Role of the Long-Noncoding RNA, CKDN2B-AS1, in Inflammatory Bowel Disease"
2016 Awardees
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![Lin Dechen](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Lin%20Dechen.jpg?h=277de17f&itok=n2HmYdsy)
![Jonathan Jacobs](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Jonathan%20Jacobs.png?h=f91171a4&itok=7JGgaADX)
Project Title: "Identification and Characterization of Super-Enhancer Driven transcripts in Esophageal cancer through functional genomic approaches"
Project Title: "The Role of the Long-Noncoding RNA, CKDN2B-AS1, in Inflammatory Bowel Disease"
Project Title: "The effect of an inflammatory bowel disease associated enterotype and metabotype on colitis in humanized gnotobiotic mice"
![Leanne Jones](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Leanne%20Jones.jpg?h=d72ff27f&itok=hgtaJDNw)
![Claudio Scafoglio_KL2 Awardee](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Scafoglio%2C%20Claudio_Photo.jpg?h=26eaac76&itok=Wdh3pm1b)
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Project Title: "Characterizing the role of Tricellulin in intestinal disease"
Project Title: "Combination treatments with sodium-glucose transporter 2 inhibitors in pancreatic cancers"
Project Title: "Colonic mucosal micro RNA and gene expression associated pathways and their correlation with dysbiosis in colonic mucosa in Irritable bowel Syndrome"
![Elizabeth Volkman](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Elizabeth%20Volkman.jpg?h=7e72db96&itok=uuwzSq5e)
Project Title: "Integrative analysis of the colonic microbiota and gastrointestinal dysfunction in systemic sclerosis"
2015 Awardees
![John Colicelli](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/John%20Colicelli_0.jpg?h=d72ff27f&itok=OTHj5zEe)
![Alexandra Drakaki](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Alexandra%20Drakaki.jpg?h=78df0f23&itok=nW5D9JwW)
![Maria Hatziapostolou](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Maria%20Hatziapostolou.jpg?h=df145728&itok=_FxnopKF)
Project Title: "Intestinal Epithelial Cell Rab5 GTPase Regulation During Listeria Infection"
Project Title: "Molecular mechanisms and targeting of miR-9 in hepatocellular oncogenesis"
Project Title: "N/A"
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![Claudia Sanmiguel](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Claudia%20Sanmigel.jpg?h=dcd7f4fc&itok=QSempLc9)
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Project Title: "Investigating the effect of lipid metabolism on Th17/Treg balance in gut immunity"
Project Title: "The role of adipokines as moderators and mediators of brain structure/activity signatures and their association with ingestive behaviors and weight loss after bariatric surgery"
Project Title: "Randomized controlled study of patients with severe refractory or recurrent peptic ulcer bleeding"
![Heloisa Soares](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Heloisa%20Soares.jpg?h=bd907a81&itok=JkeRp_QY)
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Project Title: "Negative Feedback loops by MEK/ERK and P13K/AKT/mTOR in pancreatic cancer"
Project Title: "Determining the functional role of Stard3nl in liver fibrosis"
2014 Awardees
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Project Title: "Effects of corticotrophin releasing hormone receptor 2 (CRHR2) in modulating colon cancer immunoescape through Fas/FasL regulation"
Project Title: "Regulation of colitis by miR-221-5p and miR-222 3p-neurokinin receptor interactions"
Project Title: "Regulation of Intestinal Lipid Metabolism by IDOL "
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![Thomas Vallim](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Thomas%20Vallim.jpg?h=d72ff27f&itok=SD2uiyA3)
Project Title: "Neuroregulation in Hepatic Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Orthotopic liver Transplantation: Immunomodulation via PKA-CREB-KL4 Pathway"
Project Title: "Identifying a Role for FXR-MAFG in Bile Acid and Glucose Homeostasis"
2013 Awardees
![Timothy Donahue](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Timothy%20Donahue.jpg?h=d72ff27f&itok=E0GapM5d)
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Project Title: "Targeting micro RNA 21 in human pancreatic cancer"
Project Title: "A novel chemoselection strategy for hematopoetic stem cell transplantation in IBD"
Project Title: "Understanding the link between diet, inflammation, and pancreatic cancer"
![Martin Martin](/sites/g/files/oketem271/files/styles/small_square_250px/public/media/images/Martin%20Martin.jpg?h=8916a265&itok=0bZl23xb)
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Project Title: "Peptidomic survey of regulated hormone secretion from human small intestinal mucosa derived from a subject with a germ-line mutation of PCSK1"
Project Title: "The role of miR-21 expression in ulcerative colitis-associated colorectal cancer initiation and progression"