2014-2015 Pilot Studies Awarded

Awardees BTC Institution Title of Project
Robert Straubinger
Jun Qu
Wen Wee Ma
Elizabeth Repasky

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Biomarkers for detection of treatment response and disease recurrence in pancreatic cancer

Thomas Cimato
Andrei Gudkov
Paul Wallace

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Senescence as a stimulus for inflammation
Amin Karami
Vijay Iyer

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Vibration powered leadless cardiac pacemaker
Ruogang Zhao
Stelios Andreadis

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

School of Public Health and Health Professions

Human fibrotic microtissue chips for screening of anti-fibrotic therapies
Umesh Sharma
John Canty
Gen Suzuki
Leslie Ying

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Use of cardiac MRI and tissue characterization to identify the morphology of myocardial scar and high-risk peri-infarct region

James Jarvis
Drucy Borowitz
Yijun Sun
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Expression-based biomarkers in cystic fibrosis

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