Young Investigator Research Grant

Grant not currently being offered.

Goals:

  • To foster research within the SPP by providing funds to young investigators in the field of pediatric pathology.
  • To fund a pilot project which will lead to long-term research support from other granting agencies.

Use of Funds:

The funds are to be used to facilitate basic or applied research by a young investigator in the field of pediatric and perinatal pathology. Research into any aspect of pediatric disease will be considered, including morphological, biochemical, behavioral, physiological, genetic, and epidemiological studies. Appropriate expenditures include capital equipment, reagents and supplies, research-related travel, salary supplementation, service costs (e.g., electron microscopy, histology), and animal care costs. Indirect costs are not allowed.

Young Investigator Past Grant Winners

Year # Name Institution Research Project Links
1997 NA (Not awarded)    

n/a
1998 NA

Russell Broaddus,
MD, PhD

 Baylor Specific cytokine-directed immunotherapy in a mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease n/a
1999 10 Hector Melin-Aldana NA Molecular control of the regenerative response of the developing liver n/a
2000 NA Monique DePaepe NA Fas/Fas ligand in the pathogenesis of bronchopulmonary dysplasia n/a
2001 4 Michael Fritsch University of Wisconsin The role of histone acetylation in regulating embryonic stem cell differentiation n/a
2002 NA (Not awarded)     n/a
2003 7 Roberto Gianini NA Transgenic expression of surviving in NOD mouse islets n/a
2004 NA Rene L. Galindo, MD, PhD UT Southwestern Molecular Pathogenesis of Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma n/a
2005 NA

Maureen
O’Sullivan, MD

 BC Children's Hospital Role of MLL4 in Sarcomagenesis n/a
2006 NA

Jason
Jarzembowski,
MD, PhD

 University of Michigan Genomic and proteomic heterogeneity of neuroballistic tumor component cell types n/a
2007 7 Scott Boyd Stanford Prognostic significance and biological roles of microRNAs in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia n/a
2008 6 Christopher Pearson

Nationwide Children's Hospital

 The Identification of Myotubularin Interacting Proteins Provides Insight Into the Pathogenesis of X-linked Myotubular Myopathy n/a
2009 8

Kathryn
Wikenheiser-Brokamp, PhD

 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Role of DICER1 in the Pathogenesis of Pleuropulmonary Blastoma n/a
2010 7

Kyle Kurek, MD,
PhD

 Children's Hospital of Boston Metachondromatosis n/a
2011 NA

Dinesh Rakheja,
MD, PhD

 Children's Hospital of Dallas PTPE and Wilms tumorigenesis n/a
2012 NA

Angshumoy Roy,
MD, PhD

 Baylor Defining the role of MDM4 gene amplification and overexpression in hepatoblastoma n/a
2013 6

Gabrielle Rizzuto,
MD, PhD

 UCSF Immune response to infection at the maternal-fetal interface

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/IAI.00153-17
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/IAI.00625-16
2014 6

Nikolina Dioufa,
MD, MSc

 Harvard An anchorage independent growth system as a model to study the molecular pathways that lead to drug resistance and metastasis in Ewing Sarcoma n/a
2015 9 Jeff Terry, MD, PhD BC Children's Identification of bacteria by in situ molecular visualization in pediatric Crohn's disease Not published yet.
2016 6

Elena Repnikova, PhD

 Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City Characterization of copy number variations in genomic regions containing long non-coding RNA using DNA microarray n/a
2017 10

Shengmei Zhou, MD

 Children's Hospital of Los Angeles

Integrated Genomic Analysis of High Risk
Hepatoblastoma

Not published yet.
2018 9 Gabrielle Rizzuto, MD, PhD UCSF Profiling the maternal T cell response to placental antigen

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04471-0
https://rupress.org/jem/article/219/5/e20211515/213136/Trophoblast-antigens-fetal-blood-cell-antigens-and
2019   Jessica Saunders, MD

Seattle Children's Hospital

 Luminex-based diagnosis of Hirschsprung disease  n/a
2020   Jennifer Pogoriler, MD, PhD Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Molecular Evaluation of Mucinous Cell Clusters in
Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformations to
Determine Clonality and Relationship to Adult Mucinous
Tumors

  

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41379-022-01129-0
2021   Jonathan Bush, MD, FRCPC BC Children's & Women's Hospital and Health Centre, Vancouver, Canada High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Proteomic Analysis in Osteosarcoma  Not published yet.
2022   Serena Tan, MD Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA Characterizing the cellular context of liver vascular lesions  Not published yet.
2023  

Sabrina Salberg, PhD

Monash University

 Developing a Preclinical Model of Neonatal Inflicted Head Trauma to Improve Outcomes for Survivors Not published yet.
2024  

Virginia Chu Cheung, PhD

 University of California, San Diego Examining the cellular dynamics of the human implantation site using pluripotent stem cells N/A
2025  

Sunita Suresh, MD

 University of Chicago at NorthShore Health System Impact of chronic inflammation in late preterm birth