Farrah Mateen, M.D., Ph.D. – 2016
Farrah Mateen, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Neurology Massachusetts General Hospital Linkedin Globe Twitter Remote diagnosis of pediatric epilepsy through a smartphone-based EEG The majority of children with epilepsy (CWE) live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Electroencephalography (EEG) aids the diagnosis and characterization of epilepsy in higher income settings, but can be especially difficult […]
Benjamin Lee, M.D. – 2016
Benjamin Lee, M.D. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics University of Vermont College of Medicine Linkedin Globe Twitter The Effects of Increased Inoculum on Oral Rotavirus Vaccine Take and Immunogenicity The long-term goal of this project is to identify strategies to improve oral rotavirus vaccine performance in low-income countries. The burden of rotavirus disease remains unacceptably […]
George Dragoi, M.D., Ph.D. – 2016
George Dragoi, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Yale School of Medicine Linkedin Globe Twitter Brain mechanisms underlying cognitive development during childhood The long-term objective of this proposal is to reveal the brain mechanisms underlying the formation of internal representations of the external spatial world within hippocampal-neocortical networks which support innate and […]
April Craft, Ph.D. – 2016
April Craft, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery Boston Children’s Hospital Linkedin Globe Twitter Identifying Mechanisms of Cartilage Homeostasis and Degeneration Through the Use of Patient Specific iPSCs Novel strategies are needed when standard approaches fail to uncover the mechanism by which a mutation causes disease. This is the case for the severe, degenerative joint […]
Vijay Rathinam, Ph.D. – 2016
Vijay Rathinam, Ph.D. Assistant Professor UConn Health School of Medicine Linkedin Globe Twitter Inflammatory Mechanisms in Enteric Bacterial Disease Diarrheal diseases due to microbial infections are the second most common cause of mortality in children worldwide. Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) is the causative agent of hemorrhagic colitis and the life-threatening hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) in […]
Read Pukkila-Worley, M.D. – 2016
Read Pukkila-Worley, M.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine University of Massachusetts Medical School Linkedin Globe Twitter Homeostatic Regulation of Innate Immune Activation in Intestinal Epithelial Cells Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a debilitating, chronic illness of the gastrointestinal tract. Up to one fifth of patients with IBD present as children, and those that do often have […]
Shangqin Guo, Ph.D. – 2016
Shangqin Guo, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Cell Biology Yale School of Medicine Linkedin Globe Twitter Molecular Definition of Cancer Cell-of-Origin in B-ALL Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common cancer type in children. Elucidating its etiology is crucial for devising strategies to alleviate this leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. The prevailing models […]
Jenna Galloway, Ph.D. – 2016
Jenna Galloway, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery MGH Center for Regenerative Medicine Linkedin Globe Twitter The Role of a Novel Pathway in Vertebrate Tendon Development Tendons provide the connections between your muscles and bones and enable coordinated movement. Defects in their development can result in contractures and clubfoot, congenital abnormalities in which tendons and […]