COVID-19 Catalyst I3 Awards
In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, a special grant cycle of the Imagine, Innovate and Impact Awards, COVID-Catalyst-I3, was created to support COVID-19 research. Congratulations to the following investigators who will be awarded a total of $250,000 made possible through a grant from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation:
- Manoj K. Bhasin and Mehul Suthar (pediatrics): Evaluation of genomic evidences and network biology based repurposed therapies for COVID-19
- Luisa Cervantes Barragan (microbiology and immunology) and Mehul Suthar (pediatrics): Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Decay as risk factor for severe SARS-CoV-2 infection in older adults
- Haian Fu (Pharmacology and Chemical Biology), Stefan Sarafianos (Pediatrics), Dennis Liotta (Chemistry): "Accelerated discovery of SARS-CoV-2 viral entry inhibitors"
- Carlos Moreno (pathology and laboratory medicine): ResonanceDx Renin POC Test
- Justin Schrager (emergency medicine) and Rachel Patzer (surgery): Creation of a Novel, Population-based Cohort to Advance COVID-19 Research
- Roman Sniecinski (anesthesiology): Thrombin Generation in Patients with Pneumonia Caused by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Infection (COVID-19)