Award Recipients

2011

Ovidiu Andronesi, PhD (MGH)
Project: Imaging Biomarkers and Treatment Response in Gliomas with IDH Mutations
Mentor(s): Bruce Rosen, PhD, MD; Matthew Vander Heiden, MD, PhD

Matt Bianchi, MD, PhD (MGH)
Project: Quantitative Phenotyping of Insomnia: Improving Management Through Longitudinal Home Sleep Monitoring
Mentor(s): Andrew Nierenberg, MD; Elizabeth Klerman, PhD, MD

Benjamin Brent, MD (BIDMC)
Project: Brain Activity During 'Social Reflection' and the Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia: An fMRI Study
Mentor(s): Larry Seidman, PhD; Daphne Holt, MD, PhD

Nancy Cho, MD (BWH)
Project: Predictors of Adenoma Recurrence in a Colorectal Adenoma Prevention Trial
Mentor(s): Monica Bertagnolli, MD; Francis Moore, MD

Mirna Lechpammer, PhD, MD (CHB)
Project: FMRP/mTOR Cascade in the Hypoxic/Ischemic Brain Injury and its Cognitive Sequelae
Mentor(s): Frances Jensen, MD; Rebecca Folkerth, MD

Brad Manor, PhD (BIDMC)
Project: Balance, Sensory Loss, and Neural Adaptation in Aging
Mentor(s): Lewis Lipsitz, MD; Vera Novak, PhD, MD

Nina Paynter, PhD (BWH)
Project: Genetic Effects on Statin-induced Changes in HbA1c: Pathways and Prediction
Mentor(s): Paul Ridker, MD; Daniel Chasman, PhD

2010

Nadia Ahmad, MD (MGH)
Project: Bile Acids in Surgically-induced Weight Loss
Mentor(s): Lee Kaplan, MD, PhD

Bindu Chamarthi, MD (BWH)
Project: Evaluation of Urinary Free Cortisol as a Genetically Determined Intermediate Phenotype of Essential Hypertension
Mentor(s): Jose Romero, PhD; Gordon Williams, MD

Pouneh Fazeli, MD (MGH)
Project: The Effects of Acute Calorie Deprivation on Adipose Tissue Distribution and Bone Mass
Mentor(s): Anne Klibanski, MD

Jason Gaglia, MD (HMS)
Project: Monitoring Autoimmunity in Type 1 Diabetes
Mentor(s): Diane Mathis, PhD

Shamsah Kazani, MB, BS (BWH)
Project: Pharmacogenomics and Biomarkers of the Leukotriene Pathway Polymorphisms in Asthma
Mentor(s): Elliot Israel, MD

Michael Ross, MD, PhD (BIDMC/BWH)
Project: Identification of Genetic Causes of Familial Focal Segmental Glomerular Sclerosis Using Whole Exome Capture and High-throughput Sequencing
Mentor(s): Martin Pollak, MD

Mert Sabuncu, PhD (MGH)
Project: Integrating Neuroimaging and Genetics for Characterizing Alzheimer's Risk
Mentor(s): Bruce Fischl, PhD

Kendra Taylor, PhD (MGH)
Project: Regulation of B-cell Tolerance in Autoimmune Diseases
Mentor(s): Shiv Pillai, PhD, MD

2009

Edwin Choy, MD, PhD (MGH)
Project: Phase I/II Study of HDAC Inhibition to Reverse Doxorubicin Resistance in Sarcomas
Mentor(s): Bruce Chabner, MD

Florencia Halperin, MD (BWH)
Project: Mechanisms of Improvement of Type 2 Diabetes after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
Mentor(s): Allison Goldfine, MD

Timothy Henrich, MD (BWH)
Project: Exploring HIV-1 Coreceptor Usage and Host Genetic Factors
Mentor(s): Daniel Kuritzkes, MD

Kun Hu, PhD (BWH)
Project: Fractal Regulatory Function of the Circadian System
Mentor(s): Steven Shea, PhD; Clifford Saper, MD, PhD

Damon Hyde, PhD (CHB)
Project: Noninvasive Source Localization in Pediatric Epilepsy
Mentor(s): Simon Warfield, PhD

Ingrid Katz, MD, MSc (BWH)
Project: Adherence to the HPV Vaccine in a Resource Limited Setting
Mentor(s): David Bangsberg, MD

Lindsay Oberman, PhD (BIDMC/CHB)
Project: Plasticity Mechanisms in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Mentor(s): Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD; Alexander Rotenberg, MD, PhD

Ali Tavakkolizadeh, MD (BWH)
Project: Role of Taste Receptors in Resolution of Diabetes after Gastric Bypass Surgery
Mentor(s): Joseph Avruch, MD

2008

Sherry Hsiang-Yi Chou, MD (BWH/MGH)
Project: Biomarkers of delayed ischemic damage following subarachnoid hemorrhage
Mentor(s): Steven Feske, MD; MingMing Ning, MD

Aaron Cypess, MD, PhD (Joslin)
Project: Biology of brown adipose tissue in adult humans
Mentor(s): C. Ronald Kahn, MD

Yvonne Lee, MD (BWH)
Project: Association and mechanisms of pain extent and functional outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis patients
Mentor(s): Elizabeth Karlson, MD

Melanie Pogach, MD (BIDMC)
Project: Assessment of the effects of partial sleep deprivation on insulin responsiveness
Mentor(s): J. Woodrow Weiss, MD

Luminita Pojoga, PhD (BWH)
Project: Association of caveolin-1 polymorphisms, insulin resistance, and hypertension
Mentor(s): Gail Adler, MD, PhD; Scott Weiss, MD

Joseph Schwab, MD (MGH)
Project: Immunotherapy of human chordomas
Mentor(s): Francis Hornicek, MD, PhD