Research Affairs is pleased to announce the latest GRASP awards. Eight applications were received from 16 different co-principal investigators. They were reviewed and scored by 17 to 20 individuals from a panel of senior researchers. All the applicants will shortly receive summaries of the reviewers comments.  Based on the combined scores of the reviewers, four projects with investigators from five different schools were selected for funding, fulfilling our goal to encourage collaborative research between researchers in various parts of the institution.

Please join us in congratulating Drs. Samuel Barnes, Grace Lee, Ahmed Khocht, Michael Orlich, Matilda Sheng, Yiming Li, Brendan Gongol and Salvador Soriano. We earnestly hope that their studies are successful, that their results will appear in peer-reviewed publications and will contribute to applications for extramural funding.

The four 2015 GRASP applications that were awarded $75,000 for 24-month projects are:

GCAT Awardees

The Dean of the School of Medicine is proud to announce the four GCAT awardees. These four teams of two investigators, a Basic Science researcher and a School of Medicine clinician, will be awarded $75,000 over two years to fund their research collaborations.

Please join Dr. Hadley in congratulating Drs. Saied Mirshahidi and Lee Zuckerman, Drs. Eileen Brantley and Gayathrii Nagaraj, Drs. Charles Wang and Khashayar Dashtipour, and Nathan Wall and Matheswari Senthil on their successful applications. Together, these four teams will develop insights and approaches to clinically relevant issues that have the potential to make a difference in the lives of patients.

The four funded studies are listed below: 

We would also like to thank the department heads of all of the GCAT applications for recognizing the translational significance of these collaborations and pledging their support.