Pilot Grant Recipients - Round #125 Georgia CTSA and James J Hills and Wanda S Hills (11/2022)

6 awards funded, ($45,455 each)

  • Examining the Gut Microbiome, Metabolites and Neuroendocrine Biomarkers Associated with the Psychoneurological Symptom Cluster in Long COVID
    • PI: Jinbing Bai, RN, PhD, FAAN, Assistant Professor, Nell Hodgson, Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
    • Co-PI: Kim Dupree Jones, PhD, FNP-BC, FAAN, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Advancement, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
    • Co-Investigator: Ronald Eldridge, PhD, Assistant Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
    • Co-Investigator: Wenhui Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
    • Co-Investigator: Zanthia Wiley, MD, Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Emory Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University
  • Circ-VWF/miR-766 Axis on Endotheliopathy in the Pathogenesis of Long COVID
    • PI: Bum-Yong Kang, PhD., Program Director / Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology, Oncology, and BMT, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Co-Investigator:: Wilbur A. Lam, MD, PhD, Professor and W. Paul Bowers Research Chair of Pediatrics, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Co-Investigator: John D. Roback, MD, PhD., Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Director, Center for Transfusion and Cellular Therapy, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Co-Investigator: Cheryl Maier, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Medical Director, Emory Special Coagulation Laboratory, Center for Transfusion and Cellular Therapies, Emory University School of Medicine
  • What to wear: Investigating the clinical validity and implementation determinants of consumer health wearables for self-monitoring cardiovascular symptoms of Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC)
    • PI: Deanna M. Kaplan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Affiliate Faculty, Winship Cancer Institute, Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Co-Investigator: Rachel Patzer, PhD, MPH (MPI: RECOVER Atlanta) Professor, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Director, Emory Health Services Research Center, Emory Departments of Medicine & Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Co-Investigator: Wilbur Lam, MD, Professor and W. Paul Bowers Research Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Professor and Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chief Innovation Officer, Pediatric Technology Center, Program Director, Innovation Catalyst, Georgia CTSA, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Co-Investigator: Amit Shah, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University, School of Medicine, Staff Physician, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine
  • Post-Acute COVID Microbiome (PAC-M) Study
    • PI: Colleen S. Kraft, MD, MSc, Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
    • Co-Investigator: Canhua Xiao PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
    • Co-Investigator: Nirja Mehta, MD, Infectious Diseases Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
  • Leveraging iPSC technology to study SARS-CoV-2 mediated neuroinflammation
    • PI: Christina Michalski, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
    • Co-PI: Zhexing Wen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Emory University, Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Cell Biology and Neurology
    • Co-Investigator: Julia LeCher, PhD, Instructor, Emory University, Department of Pediatrics
  • Investigating the biological causes of Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) symptoms in a nonhuman primate model
    • PI: Jessica Raper, PhD, Assistant Professor, Emory National Primate Research Center, Adjunct appointment in Dept of Pediatrics, Emory SOM
    • Co-Investigator: Mirko Paiardini, PhD, Professor, Dept of Pathology, Emory SOM
    • Co-Investigator: Ian N. Moore, DVM, PhD, Associate Professor, Emory National Primate Research Center