2016-2017 Pilot Studies Awarded

Awardees BTC Institution Title of Project

Heather Lehman, MD
Bruce Miller, MD
Beatrice Wood, PhD
James Jarvis, MD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Defining and Treating A New Pediatric Asthma Endotype: Depression-related Asthma Mediated by the Cholinergic Pathway
Donald Mager, PhD, PharmD
Wen Wee Ma, MB
Robert Straubinger, PhD

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Pharmacological Network Analysis and Modeling of Complex Chemotherapeutic Regimens in Pancreatic Cancer: Pharmacodynamic Design of Novel Combination Therapies
Jun Qu, PhD
John Canty, MD
Jianmin Wang, PhD

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

Novel Circulating Biomarkers for Sudden Cardiac Death
Jerry Richards, PhD
Leonard Epstein, PhD
Katelyn Carr, PhD
Larry Hawk, PhD

Research Institute on Addictions
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences
Effects of Nicotine on the Reinforcing Value of Alternatives to Eating in Animals
Ferdinand Schweser, PhD
David Poulsen, PhD
John Leddy, MD
Asla Pitkänen, MD, PhD
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Investigation of Brain Calcification in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Using Advanced Quantitative Magnetic Susceptibility MRI
Jack Sullivan, MD, PhD
Jonathan Lovell, PhD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Novel Theranostic Approaches to Treat Wet Age-related Macular Degeneration, Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy, and Other Retinal Vascular Diseases
Kinga Szigeti, MD, PhD
Gabriela Popescu, PhD
Brian Trummer, MD, PhD
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Narrowing the Gap in the Genetic Architecture of Alzheimer's Disease
Two joint proposals on precision medicine with University of Rochester CTSA hub were funded 2016-17:
Awardees BTC Institution Title of Project

Joseph Barbi, PhD

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

The Role of CCR2 Blockade in Patients with Locally Advanced Pancreas Cancer

Sanjay Sethi, MD

Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Epigenetics profiling of Exacerbation Susceptibility in COPD