YCCI 2007 Pilot Awardees
Translational and Interdisciplinary Research
| PI | Department | Project | Amount Funded | Award Dates |
| Patty Lee | Pulmonary & Critical Care | Emphysema: The Inter-related Roles of Toll-like Receptors, Smoking and Age. | $150,000 | 8/1/07-
7/31/09 |
| Linda Mayes | Yale Child Study Center | Neural Circuitry of Parent Attachment in Subsgraycellce Abuse | $150,000 | 8/1/07-
7/31/09 |
| Joanne Weidhaas | Therapeutic Radiology | MicroRNAa Signatures in Basal-like Breast Cancer: Predicting Outcome and Targets | $150,000 | 8/1/07-
7/31/09 |
| Total Translational and Interdisciplinary Research | $450,000 | |||
Biostatistics and Informatics
| PI | Department | Project | Amount Funded | Award Dates |
| Ning Sun | EPH | Development of Pathway Analysis Methods through Data Integration & Their Application to Leukemogenesis | $25,000 | 9/1/07-
8/31/08 |
| Total Biostatistics and Informatics | $25,000 | |||
Novel Clinical and Translational Methodologies
| PI | Department | Project | Amount Funded | Award Dates |
| Douglas
Befroy | Internal Medicine-Endo | Implementation of FAST-MRS to Study Mitochondrial Function at 4T | $19,972 | 10/1/07-
9/30/08 |
| Demetrios Braddock | Pathology | Validation of Bithionol, Hexachlorophene & Merbromin as a Chemotherapeutic Agents in the treatment of Ovarian Carcinoma & Melanoma | $24,500 | 10/1/07-
9/30/08 |
| Chirag Parikh | Nephrology | Identifying Acute Tubular Necrosis in Patients with Cirrhosis and Renal Dysfunction | $20,000 | 10/1/07-
9/30/08 |
| Total Novel Clinical and Translational Methodologies | $64,472 | |||
Junior Faculty
| PI | Department | Project | Amount Funded | Award Dates |
| Zoher Ghogawala | Neurosurgery | Prospective Multicenter Trial Comparing Ventral to Dorsal Surgery for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy | $50,000 | 10/1/07-
9/30/09 |
| Erica Herzog | Internal Medicine- Pulmonary | Investigation of Fibrocytes in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis | $50,000 | 10/1/07-
9/30/09 |
| Marietta Vazquez | Pediatrics | Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccine Given to Pregnant Women in Preventing Hospitalization in their Infants | $50,000 | 10/1/07-
9/30/09 |
| Total Junior Faculty | $150,000 | |||
Community-Based Research and Engagement
| PI | Department | Project | Amount Funded | Award Dates |
| Nora Groce | EPH, with coummity partners Community Mediation (Charles Pillsbury), Prevention Research Center (Karem Shuval) | Evaluating the Impact of a Violence Prevention Program among Urban Youth in the New Haven Public Schools | $25,000 | 10/1/07-
9/30/08 |
| Karen Dorsey | Pediatrics with coummity partners Fair Haven Community Health Center (Maria Mauldon) | Family Based Group Visits to Combat Pediatric Obesity | $25,000 | 10/1/07-
9/30/08 |
| Total Community-Based Research and Engagement | $50,000 | |||
| Total Pilot Awards for 2007 | $739,472 | |||
