Mayo Clinic Center for Clinical and Translational Science & Center for Biomedical Discovery announce CCaTS-CBD Pilot Awards for Team Science
The Mayo Clinic Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCaTS) and Center for Biomedical Discovery (CBD) announced recipients of the 2019 CCaTS-CBD Pilot Awards for Team Science. The goal of the awards is to enhance team science and develop clinical-basic partnerships in projects that have potential to impact clinical practice at Mayo Clinic.
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Aleksandar Denic, M.D., Ph.D. (N '07, NBD '11, N '12)
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Department of Medicine
Mayo Clinic in Rochester
"NMR Profiling of Urine and Plasma in Rare Kidney Stone Patients": identifying novel metabolic biomarkers or metabolic profiles in urine and plasma of patients with rare kidney stone diseases
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Hirohito Kita, M.D. (IMM '91)
Division of Allergic Diseases
Department of Medicine
Mayo Clinic in Rochester
"Effects of Preterm Birth on Lung Disease and Innate Immunity Late in Life": identifying the cytokine responses of blood innate lymphoid cells analysis in asthma development in children born preterm
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Kay Medina, Ph.D. (IMM '05)
Department of Immunology
Mayo Clinic in Rochester
"The Role of miR-204 in Human Pediatric Pre-B Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia": determiing expression levels of miR-204 in normal human BM hematopoietic progenitors and B cell precursor subsets and if sustained expression impairs normal B cell development
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Scott Nyberg, M.D., Ph.D. (S '96)
Division of Transplantation Surgery
Department of Surgery
Mayo Clinic in Rochester
"Expanding and Purifying Human Hepatocytes with Congenital Metabolic Disorders: A Novel Therapeutic Approach for Pediatric Liver Diseases": developing a protocol to expand human hepatocytes in an immunodeficient pig "incubator," purify the with advanced cell sorting techniques and prepare them for gene correction and autologous transplant
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Alexander Revzin, Ph.D. (PHYS '16)
Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering
Mayo Clinic in Rochester
"A Microfluidic Device for Blood Analysis in Neonates": demonstrating detection of c-reative protein and bilirubin, biomarkers relevant to neonatal monitoring, from a sub-microliter volume of blood
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Lisa Schimmenti, M.D. (CGEN '15)
Chair, Department of Clinical Genomics
Mayo Clinic in Rochester
"Functional Variant Determination in Undiagnosed Disease Patients with Hearing Loss": identifying novel genes/variants that cause conditions characterized by hearing loss