Current Awardees
2019-2020 Pilot Project Awards
The Institute of Integration for Medicine & Science is pleased to announce the following recipients of the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Pilot Projects for September 2019-August 2020
IIMS/CTSA Program
| Yidong Bai, PhD Professor |
CSA UTHSCSA |
The role of Hispanic specific mitochondrial haplogroups on HCC in Mexican Americans |
| Jeffery Boychuk, PhD Assistant Professor |
Cellular and Integrative Physiology UTHSCSA |
Metabolic Disorders Interfere With Behavioral and Cellular Stroke Recovery: Effects of High Fat Diet |
| Xiao-Dong Chen, MD, PhD Professor Jean Jiang, PhD |
Comprehensive Dentistry/Research UTHSCSA Biochemistry & Structural Biology |
Mesenchymal stem cells suppress tumor cell growth |
| Yvonne Covin, MD Assistant Professor |
Internal Medicine / General & Hospital Medicine UTHSCSA |
Diagnostic Excellence through Patient Engagement (DICE) study |
| Mitzi Gonzales, PhD Assistant Professor Dean Kellogg, MD, PhD Professor |
Neurology UTHSCSA Medicine |
Pilot Study of Efficacy and Safety of Rapamycin in Early Alzheimer’s Disease |
| David Morilak, PhD Professor April Risinger, PhD |
Pharmacology UTHSCSA Pharmacology |
Developing a rat prostate cancer model as a platform to investigate cancer therapy-induced cognitive impairment and its treatment |
| Naomi Sayre, PhD Assistant Professor Miranda Orr, PhD |
Neurosurgery UTHSCSA Medicine/Diabetes |
Investigating a role for celluar senescence in brain trauma-induced neurodegeneration and cognitive impairment |
| Kumar Sharma, MD Chief, Nephrology |
Medicine/Nephrology UTHSCSA |
Adaptive Trial Omics Infrastructure for Acute Kidney Injury |
| Eun Yong Shim, PhD Assistant Professor Hai Rao, PhD |
Radiation Oncology UTHSCSA Molecular Medicine |
Targeting Brca1- or Brca2-Mutant Ovarian Cancers by Small Molecule-Induced Proteolysis of Rad52 |
| Kexin Xu, PhD Assistant Professor Matthew Hart, PhD Stanton McHardy, PhD |
Molecular Medicine UTHSCSA Biochemistry & Structural Biology Chemistry |
Development of small-molecule inhibitors of EZH2 using a new strategy |
IIMS/MHI Program
| Qitao Ran, PhD Associate Professor James Lechleiter, PhD |
CSA UTHSCSA |
Astrocyte activation by small-molecule compounds as a novel therapy for motor neuron disease |
IIMS/UTSA Program
| Soo Chan Lee, PhD Assistant Professor Alexei Tumanov, MD, PhD |
Biology UTSA Microbiology,Immunology & Molecular Genetics |
Interaction between intestinal fungi and bacteria in the regulation of gut permeability and inflammation |
| Zenong Yin, PhD Professor Martha Martinez, MSN, RNC |
Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition UTSA Nursing |
Function Improvement Exercise for Older Sedentary Community-Dwelling Latino Residents (FE-SaLiR) |