Young Scholar Award Winners 2019-20

November 12, 2019 Staff

Six Young Scholar Proposals were selected as award winners this year.

Chlamydia trachomatis immune response in primary porcine intestinal epithelial cells
- Mentors: Amanda Amaral, Cecilia Schaaf
- PI: Tobias Kaeser
- Co-PI: Liara Gonzalez
Designer 3D matrices for hair follicle stem cell organoids
- Mentors: Kathryn Polkoff, Parth Chansoria
- PI: Jorge Piedrahita
- Co-PI: Rohan Shirwaiker
Using decellularized ECM and DWNFE to create a tissue-on-a-chip to model the bone-tendon-muscle system
- Mentors: Zack Davis, Andreea Badileanu, Stacy Schkoda
- PI: Matthew Fisher
- Co-PIs: Donald Freytes, Seth Kullman
Modeling clinical dosimetry despite effects on lung inflammation: Validation of in silico computational fluid dynamics-based and in vitro 3D printed respiratory system models for comparison to drug delivery in vivo to pigs with pulmonary inflammation
- Mentors: Karl Schuchard, Jessica Gilbertie,
- PI: Rohan Shirwaiker
- Co-PI: Megan Jacob
Aerosolized delivery of micro-dosed liposome-encapsulted oligonucleotides for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in a murine model
- Mentors: Kristen Popowski, Doug Snider, Ana Gracioso Martins, Karl Schuchard
- PI: Ke Cheng
- Co-PIs: Glenn Cruse, Donald Freytes, Rohan Shirwaiker
Investigating the Electronic-cigarette effect on mice lungs through 3D-imaging
- Mentors: Adele Moatti, Anne Crews
- PI: Alon Greenbaum
- Co-PI: Ken Adler

The award grantees will receive $4400 stipend of an undergraduate internship and $3600 in supply money.

Congratulations to all of our Associate Member mentors!