Past Pilot Grant Awardees
- Jun Hee Lee, PhD - Michigan Medicine- "Microscopic and transcriptome-level understanding of secondary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (sFSGS) using Seq-Scope"
- Sethuramasundaram Pitchiaya, PhD - Michigan Medicine - "Biomoleular condensates in renal osmotic stress response"
- Ann Miller, PhD -University of Michigan - "Investigating Anillin (ANLN) coding variants in Nephrotic Syndrome"
- Jennifer Schaub, MD- Michigan Medicine - "A systems biology approach to identify patients with Diabetic Kidney Disease that may benefit from novel prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor"
- Joseph Alge, MS, MD, PhD - Baylor College of Medicine - "Indoxyl Sulfate as a Mediator of Chronic Kidney Disease Progression"
- Michael Granda, MD - University of Washington - "Scintigraphic Tubular Assessment of Renal Transplant Secretion (STARTS)"
- Douglas Atchison, MD, PhD - Michigan Medicine, Department of Nephrology - “The Role of Phospholipase C Epsilon in Aortic Dissection and Glomerular Disease”
- Heddwen Brooks, PhD - University of Arizona - "Sex differences diabetic kidney disease: role of renal inflammation and impact of COVID 19 infection"
- Douglas Atchison, MD, PhD - Michigan Medicine, Department of Nephrology - “The Role of Phospholipase C Epsilon in Aortic Dissection and Glomerular Disease”
- Jeffrey Beamish, MD, PhD - Michigan Medicine, Department of Nephrology - Defining targets of Pax2 and Pax8 during renal regeneration”
- Chyi Chyi Chong, MD - University of Arizona College of Medicine - “Comparative study between ultrasound-guided arteriovenous fistula cannulation versus conventional method in adult hemodialysis patients”
- Guanshi Zhang, PhD - University of Texas Health San Antonio - “Integrated spatial lipidomics and trans-omics of glomerular endothelial PLPP3 pathway-related metabolic changes in diabetic kidney disease”
- Benjamin Allen, PhD - Cell and Developmental Biology - “Investigating a Novel Role for Gas1 in Kidney Morphogenesis”
- Arvind Rao, PhD - Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics - “Synthesizing Image Derived Heterogeneity with Genomic Measurements for Assessing Chronic Kidney Disease Progression”
- Tze-Woei Tan, MD - Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery (University of Arizona) - “Understanding Patients’ Perspective for Brachial Basilic Fistula: Steps Toward Shared Decision Making in Complex Hemodialysis Access”
- Heather Ward, PhD - Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology (University of Washington) - “Defining Molecular Signatures and Cellular Behaviors of Distinct Glomerular Populations”
- Catherine Kim, MD - Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology - "Renal Disease and the Menopausal Transition"
- Anna Mathew, MD - Division of Nephrology - "Metabolic Approach to Understanding the Biological Basis of Salt Sensitivity in CKD"
- Abhijit Naik, MD - Division of Nephrology - "Effect of Moderate Caloric Restriction on Glomerular Growth after Kidney Transplantation"
- Pratima Sharma, MD - Division of Gastroenterology - "Unbiased Glycoproteomic Approach for Risk Prediction for Chronic Kidney Disease Progression Among Liver Transplant Recipients"
- Cristina Cebrian-Ligero, MD - Division of Gastroenterology - "Identification of Downstream Targets of Etv4 and Etv5 in the Murine Developing Nephron"
- Jeff Hodgin, PhD - Department of Pathology - "Renal Inequalities in Nephrotic Syndrome: From Neighborhood exposures to Molecular Mechanisms"
- Laura Mariani, MD - Division of Nephrology - "Non-Linear Disease Course Trajectory in Nephrotic Syndrome"
- Maggie Hicken, PhD - Division of Nephrology - Defining the Transcriptional Signature of Podocyte-Specific Rac1 Activation in Glomerular Disease"
- Jeff Hodgin, PhD - Department of Pathology - "Renal Inequalities in Nephrotic Syndrome: From Neighborhood exposures to Molecular Mechanisms"
- Amy Rothberg, MD - Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Diabetes - "The Impact of Medical Weight Loss on Albuminuria and Kidney Function in Obese Adults"
