Congratulations to our Pilot & Feasibility grant awardees!
2023
Minigrant for Investigator in Training
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- Emily Baumrin, MD, Physician, Department of Dermatology, Joel Gelfand Lab
- Identification of Skin-specific Patient-reported Outcomes in Chronic Graft-versus-host Disease
- Victoria Fang, MD, PhD, Resident Physician & Research Fellow, Department of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics, John Wherry Lab and Department of Dermatology, Aimee Payne Lab
- Characterization of tertiary lymphoid structures in patients with hidradenitis suppurativa
- Juan Inclan Rico, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Veterinary Medicine, De’Broski Herbert Lab
- Neuronal suppression of myeloid-derived IL-33 exacerbates keratinization and skin barrier function.
- Aayushi Uberoi, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Dermatology, Elizabeth Grice Lab
- Leveraging microbiome-host interactions to improve skin barrier
- Leo Wang, MD, PhD, Resident Physician, Department of Dermatology, George Cotsarelis Lab
- Local and sustained baricitinib delivery to the skin from injectable hydrogels through reversible thioimidate adducts
2022
Full Grant
- Wenqin Luo, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
- Targeting TRPC3 and NP1 afferents for Alleviating Contact Dermatitis Pruritus
Minigrant for Investigator in Training
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- Nikhil Jiwrajka, MD, MS, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Rheumatology, Montserrat Anguera Lab
- Elucidating the Role of Dynamic X-Chromosome Inactivation Maintenance in the Pathogenesis of Systemic Sclerosis
2020
Full Grant
- Taku Kambayashi, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- The role of TSLP-induced sebum release in promoting skin barrier function
2019
Full Grant
- Yana Kamberov, Department of Genetics
- Cellular mechanisms of Engrailed-1 function in eccrine sweat gland development
- Patrick Seale, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
- Metabolic regulation of dermal fibroblast differentiation and fibrotic skin disease
Minigrant for Investigator in Training
- Donna Brennan-Crispi, Department of Dermatology
- Investigate the role of Fzd2-mediated non-canonical Wnt signaling in maintenance of hair follicle stem cells
2018
Full Grant
- Thomas Leung, Department of Dermatology
- Understanding the pathogenesis of neutrophilic dermatoses
- Christoph Thaiss, Department of Microbiology
- Circadian regulation of skin inflammation by the microbiome
Minigrant for Investigator in Training
- Mackenzie Wehner, Department of Dermatology
- Actinic keratosis validation, incidence, and association with future skin cancers
2017
Full Grant
- Thomas Leung, Department of Dermatology
- SDF1 control of tissue regeneration and fibrosis in mice and humans
- Pantelis Rompolas, Department of Dermatology
- Notch regulation of stem cell fate in skin homeostasis and tumorigenesis
- Jonathan Katz, Department of Medicine
- The role of KLF4 in UV-mediated squamous cell cancer of the skin
Minigrant for Investigator in Training
- Cory Simpson, Department of Dermatology
- Role of NIX in programmed and damage-induced mitophagy in epidermis