Pilot Project Research Grant Award

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University is pleased to announce the 2023 Pilot Project Research Grant Awardees ($25,000 per project). The program objective is to foster translational research collaborations and provide funding support for junior clinical faculty in the Brown affiliated hospital systems.

Awardees:      Adina Badea, PhD & Daniel J. Spade, PhD

Project Title: A look into environmental reproductive toxicology: robust quantification of steroid hormones, cholesterol, and arachidonic acid levels in phthalate-exposed rat fetal testes

Awardees:      Shaolei Lu, MD, PhD & Yun-An Tseng, DO

Project Title: Characterization of basal-like pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Awardees:      Ece Uzun, PhD & Joyce Ou, MD, PhD

Project Title: Stratification of ovarian cancer subgroups using network biology approach

Panel Chairs

Liang Cheng, MD, Vice Chair for Translational Research

Geralyn M. Lambert-Messerlian, PhD, Vice Chair for Clinical Faculty Development

Panel Members:

Ivana Delalle, MD, PhD

Sean Lawler, PhD

M. Ruhul Quddus, MD

Robert W. Sobol, PhD

Li Juan Wang, MD, PhD

Chair of Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine:  Jonathan D. Kurtis, MD, PhD